| British Library: | 12431.t.19 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | Simon 50 |
| Curwen Press: | D15 |
| British Library: | 12431.t.19 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | Simon 50 |
| Curwen Press: | D15 |
[A]2r
[within a border of black and green leaves, a design in black green, blue, yellow and salmon] THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS A FAIRY TALE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF CHARLES NODIER ILLUSTRATED BY CLAUD LOVAT FRASER LONDON DANIEL O'CONNOR 90 GREAT RUSSELL ST., W.C.1
[A]2 B-D8 E4 [F]2; inserts before B1 and D3.
[1-4] 5-60 [+4].
Royal 8o: 9 ¾" × 6", white wove, no mark; 14pt. Imprint; line block illustrations throughout in colours of t.p., full-page illustration on insert before D3; casing, patterned printed endleaves front and back in same colours as the boards; spine glazed blue cloth, boards paper printed with lozenge design in black red blue yellow and green, except for integral label on upper cover: ‘THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS A FAIRY TALE FOR LUCKY CHILDREN Illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser.’
Publisher's imprint: F1v: THE WESTMINSTER PRESS 411a HARROW ROAD LONDON, W.; see Simon 1956 p.17-20 on this order from Daniel O'Connor; B.L. catalogue implies Fraser was translator as well as artist.
the first Curwen Press book with coloured line block illustrations, Gilmour 1977, p.41; B.L. copy lacks inserts before B1 & D3, the latter possibly stolen.
Dedication: Insert before B1, dated Christmas 1921, bears dedicatory verses to Princess Mary (Princess Royal) on her forthcoming marriage. She married on the 28th February 1922.
Douglas Ball reported 25/Feb/1977 that Aberystwyth holds a variant, with no full-page inserted illustration in D; the dedicatory verses are on verso of title-page, conjugate with [A]1.
One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
The first printing of this book was by Gerard Meynell at the Westminster Press, see Webb and Skipwith, 2009 p.20.
5/Dec/1921
NPG ODNB Munzinger NPG ODNB
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2006