| Curwen Press: | B6 |
| Curwen Press: | B6 |
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[within a green double border of flowers] THE BOOK OF FAIR WOMEN E. O. HOPPÉ & RICHARD KING [Cape's circular mark] Jonathan Cape Eleven Gower Street, London
[12]4r
HERE ENDS THE BOOK OF FAIR WOMEN ... FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY COPIES ONLY HAVE BEEN PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS LONDON MCM XX II
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[1-12] 13-6 [17] 18-21 [22-3] 24-7 [+69]; plates tipped onto all rectos .
Crown 4o: 9¾" × 7⅛" trimmed, white laid, no mark; 14pt. Kennerley with dropped initials; from [4]4 to [12]3 (sections [5-12]) pairs of guards are sewn in centre and between inner and outer pairs, to balance the thickness of the portrait plates; sepia photogravures tipped onto rectos by top edges; casing, spine green cloth, printed paper label: ‘[row of 5 flowers] THE BOOK OF FAIR WOMEN [row of flowers]’, boards white laid paper printed with pattern in orange, printed paper label: ‘[within border of flowers] THE BOOK OF FAIR WOMEN BY E. O. HOPPÉ & RICHARD KING’
Robin Phillips, 1963
