Note

Claud Lovat Fraser, in the earliest period of Curwen book production, assisted Harold Curwen with design, translation etc.

No imprint except as on title-page

[a]⁸ b-f⁸ g⁴ [h]⁴.

[1-8] 9-11 [12] 13-15 [16] 17-22 [23] 24-31 [32-4] 35-8 [46-7] 48-104 [+8]; illustrations tipped onto c1^v and c4^r, errata slip onto [a]8^v.

Foolscap 8^o: 6½" × 4", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 12pt. Imprint with 2- and 3-line dropped initials; line block illustrations throughout in black, woodcuts by Gibbings Hagreen and Rooke; three tipped-on illustrations by Lovat Fraser on c1^v and c4^r in black yellow and orange, in blue green and black on g2^v and g4^v; the block bears date 1927; endleaves printed in black with a design of the sunrise over a city; spine buff buckram, gold-blocked, at foot:[a bird flying], up spine: ‘CHANGE ~1’, boards brown paper, upper cover paper label: ‘[within a hatched border] CHANGE | The beginning of a chapter | in 12 Volumes [leaf] Edited by | JOHN HILTON & JOSEPH THORP’

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.

R. H. Tawney, elected a Fellow of Balliol College in 1918, was active in promoting the Workers' Educational Association.

On the Decoy Press see Simon 1973 p.148-9.

Intended as a periodical publication; despite the title, no further issues seem to have been published; see Simon 1973 p.149 where also the initials PW after the word AGENDA are linked to the artist Paul Woodroffe, the woodcuts are ascribed to Philip Hagreen, Herbert Rooke and Robert Gibbings, and the Decoy Press device to Eric Gill.

28/Feb/1919

• Decoy Press, Plaistow
• Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890–1921 NPG ODNB
• Gill, Eric, 1882–1940 NPG ODNB
• Imprint
• Imprint, 12pt.
• J. Curwen & Sons, London. Centenary Exhibition (1963 : Bloomsbury)
• Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1880–1962 NPG ODNB
• Thorp, Joseph, 1873–1962 NPG ODNB
• Woodroffe, Paul