1920 Cf

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C6

Title page

[1]4r

[within a double rule] THE SONG BOOK | OF QUONG LEE OF | LIMEHOUSE | Transcribed by | THOMAS BURKE | [design] | GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD | 40 Museum Street, London, W,C,1

Collation

[1-7]4 first and last leaves pasted to boards, and next inner leaves pasted to turn-in of wrapper.

Pagination

[10] 1-40 [+6].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7 ¼" × 4 ¾", white laid, Abbey Mills Greenfield; 11(+1.5)pt. Imprint with 3-line dropped initials to poems; wrapper in orange and grey attached at spine and turn-in; paper spine label printed up: ‘QUONG LEE’, paper label on upper cover printed: ‘[within a black and yellow design of a scene at Limehouse] The | SONG BOOK OF | QUONG LEE | of Limehouse. | Thomas Burke | . Author of "Broken | Blossoms." [all in script]

Note

In many books written by Thomas Burke the character Quong Lee features as the "narrator"..

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963