The Hogarth Press (London, UK)
Series dates:1940-1947
Size: 5″ x 7.25″

Edited byJohn Lehmann (who would go on to found his own firm,John Lehmann Ltd. in 1946 and issueThe Chiltern Library andThe Holiday Library) TheNew Hogarth Library would eventually encompass sixteen poetry titles:

No. 1 Selected Poems by William Plomer
No. 2Selected Poems by C. Day Lewis
No. 3Selected Poems by R.M. Rilke
No. 4Selected Poems by V. Sackville-West
No. 5Poems by Terence Tiller
No. 6Work in Hand by Robert Graves, Norman Cameron, Alan Hodge
No. 7Selected Verse Poems of Arthur Rimbaud
No. 8The Middle of a War by Roy Fuller
No. 9Forty Poems by John Lehmann
No. 10 40 Selected Poems of Herman Melville
No. 11Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
No. 12The Inward Animal by Terence Tiller
No. 13The Sun My Monument by Laurie Lee
No. 14A Lost Season by Roy Fuller
No. 15From the Shiffolds by R.C. Trevelyan
No. 16Unarm, Eros by Terence Tiller

Lehmann also edited thePoets of Tomorrow series (3 titles, 1939-1941) for Hogarth, focused on less established poets. This was similar to an earlier Hogarth series,Living Poets, edited by Dorothy Wellesley (29 titles, 1928-1937).

Jackets and bindings for the New Hogarth Library remain unchanged throughout the seven-year run of the series. This copy ofThe Selected Verse Poems of Arthur Rimbaud is the second impression from1942 (first impression also 1942). A plain jacket design varies in the ink color used from title to title and indicates the series name on the front of the jacket. A blurb about the title is included on the front jacket flap. The series number and price (3s./6d) is also included on the front jacket flap.

A list of titles up through volume 9 in the series is indicated on the back jacket flap.

Salmon cloth binding with minimal text varied in color from title to title (including blue, yellow, teal, orange).

Half-title page:

Title page includes the series name and serial number, as well as the second impression indication.

Copyright page.

Chatto & Windus acquired the Hogarth Press in 1946. They reprinted some of the New Hogarth Library titles in their Phoenix Living Poets series (1960-1983).