Shelfmark
Kc.1.10 - Kc.1.12
Title
The owl : a miscellany / [edited by Robert Graves and William Nicholson].
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Martin Secker, 1919-1923.
Physical description
3 v. : ill. (lithogr., some col.) ; 33 cm.
Note
Pagination: vol. 1: 29, [1 blank], [2] p., [9] leaves of plates; vol. 2: 54, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates -- vol. [3]: 60 p., [10] leaves of plates.
Note
"Edited by Robert Graves and William Nicholson" -- vol. [3], bottom of cover verso.
Note
The only existing three numbers of a short-lived illustrated periodical, containing first printings of works by Robert Graves ("Ghost-raddled", "A frosty night"), Siegfried Sassoon; Max Beerbohm, and many others.
Note
"'The owl' will come out quarterly or whenever enough suitable material is in the hands of the editors." -- vol. 1, foreword [attr. to Robert Graves].
Note
The third, unnumbered vol., "The winter owl", was published by Cecil Palmer, 49, Chandon Street, Covent Garden, in the winter of 1923 -- cf. M. Seymour, Robert Graves : life on the edge, p. 86.
Note
All issues printed on handmade Greenfield paper, by Abbey Mills.
Note
"... illustrations [i.e. lithographic reproductions] by F. Vincent Brooks, Parker Street, Kingsway; the letterpress by Gerard T. Meynell, The Westminster Press, 11 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1919" -- t.p. verso, vols. 1-2.
Note
All issues in colour lithograph covers: no. 1 sewn in wrappers, no. 2 and [3] in boards.
Formatted contents note
Contents: No. 1 (May 1919). Foreword -- The master and the leaves / by Thomas Hardy -- Sonnet / by John Masefield -- Spring / by Pamela Bianco -- Song / by J.C. Squire -- Ghost-raddled / by Robert Graves -- Fable, one -- A frosty night / by Robert Graves -- Sporting acquaintances / by Siegrfried Sassoon -- A letter from William Orpen -- What the Captain said at the point-to-point / by Siegfried Sassoon -- Love impeached / by W.H. Davies -- The careless lady / by Nancy Nicholson -- The ape / by W.J. Turner -- Three songs of the enigma / by Robert Nichols -- Summer / by Pamela Bianco -- Love--a dream / by W.J. Turner -- "A clergyman" / by Max Beerbohm -- The senior service / by Randolph Caldecott -- Lottie's daughter / by Eric Kennington -- Mrs. Harris / by George Belcher -- The sun / by John Galsworthy -- The Indian / by Joseph Crawhall -- Trivia / by L. Pearsall Smith -- Fable, two.
Formatted contents note
Contents: No. 2 (Oct. 1919). The happy night / by J.C. Squire -- The rabbit / by Walter de la Mare -- Limitations / by Siegfried Sassoon -- Eagles / by Ernest Griset -- Everyone sang / by Siegfried Sassoon -- Alas / by Walter de la Mare -- Song from a play / by Maurice Baring -- Advice to lovers / by Robert Graves -- Vain man / by Nancy Nicholson -- Song: one hard look / by Robert Graves -- Petunia / by W.J. Turner -- Fairyland / by Pamela Bianco -- Maidens / by W.J. Turner -- The flower of flame / by Robert Nichols -- Ecstasy / by Rockwell Kent -- A country god / by Edmund Blunden -- The picnic / by William Nicholson -- The nightjars / by Edward Shanks -- Study / by Derwent Wood -- Let me in / by John Freeman -- I am that creature / by John Freeman -- Fable / by William Nicholson -- The golden whales of California / by Vachel Lindsay -- "Get up" / by Rockwell Kent -- Something defeasible / by Max Beerbohm -- Sketch for cenotaph no. 1 / by Edwin Lutyens -- The "heart's desire" / by H.M. Tomlinson -- Parish council meeting / by John Nash -- The cow / by Edgell Rickword.
Formatted contents note
Contents: No. [3] (Winter 1923). The missed train / by Thomas Hardy -- Rogues / by W.H. Davies -- Swinburne on blotting paper / by Pelligrini -- Massacre / by T.E. Lawrence -- Winter remembered / by J.C. Ransom -- An illustrated letter / by Sir Edward Burne-Jones -- Cascade / by E. Rickword -- The lost arrow / by David Garnett -- The safe / by John Doyle -- Mr. Belloc / by John Doyle -- Tracked--an unpublished sonnet / by Enoch Soames (communicated by Max Beerbohm) -- Mr. William Nicholson (last century) / by Max Beerbohm -- The Pietist / By Philip Guedalla -- Mr. Eugene Goossens / by Frank Dobson -- First Ryhmes / by Edmund Blunden -- "Gyp" / by Elizabeth Drury -- Solar eclipse / by Siegfried Sassoon -- Interchange of selves / by B.K. Mallik -- "Kitchen life" / by Pamela Bianco -- Full moon / by Robert Graves -- An American addresses Philomena / by J.C. Ransom -- The shire horse (woodcut) / by William Nicholson -- The mask of Michichiyo / by W.J. Turner -- The hunt: unpublished sketches for The Queen of Hearts / by Randolph Caldecott -- Knowledge of God / by Robert Graves -- "Alice" / by Frank Dobson -- Lady Jekyll's plum pudding.
Citation/references note
Higginson, Fred H. Bibliography of the writings of Robert Graves, C60, C173
Citation/references note
Seymour, Miranda Robert Graves : Life on the edge, 1995, p. 86
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Palmer, H. Cecil publisher.
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Meynell, Gerard T. (Gerard Tuke), 1877 - 1943 (Gerard Tuke),
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Martin Secker Ltd. publisher.
Identifier
B52152