| British Library: | RAc.9670.c |
| Curwen Press: | A16 |
| British Library: | RAc.9670.c |
| Curwen Press: | A16 |
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[within a border of flowers] A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL [in red] CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST LOAN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS HELD BY THE FIRST EDITION CLUB 1922 PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE FIRST EDITION CLUB 17 PALL MALL EAST LONDON, S.W.1
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[First Edition Club Imprimatur] block, a circular leaf design with italic script within: Imprimatur THE FIRST EDITION CLUB.
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(500)
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[with unicorn Kzc no.2]
[A]8 B-M8 (K3+1) N4; A1 and N4 are pastedowns.
[16] 1-2 [3-4] 5-16 [17-8] 19-42 [43-4] 45-55 [56-8] 59-70 [71] 72-80 [81-2] 83-116 [117-8] 119-29 [130-2] 133-78 [+6].
Demy 8o: 8⅞" × 5¾", top edge only trimmed, white laid, Haesbeek; 12pt. Caslon; line block facsimiles in text; on many pages row of printer's flowers below headline, on some at foot also; casing, spine white buckram, red paper label: ‘[in italic script] CATALOGUE of the FIRST LOAN EXHIBITION 1922 ·:· FIRST EDITION CLUB LONDON’, boards mottled grey paper, red paper label on upper cover: ‘[within italic pen border] Bibliographical CATALOGUE of the FIRST LOAN EXHIBITION 1922 FIRST EDITION CLUB LONDON’; a spare copy of each label tipped on to N3r.
See Simon 1973, p.236: Review in Catalogue raisonné implies that this is the first imprint of the First Edition Club; see Balston (1951) p.22 quoting Holbrook Jackson, 'It might be taken as a model for all book catalogues'.
Robin Phillips, 1963