| British Library: | 07077.e.46 |
| Curwen Press: | C46 |
| British Library: | 07077.e.46 |
| Curwen Press: | C46 |
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A HANDBOOK [in red] OF WINE How to buy, serve, store and drink it, by W. J. Todd [Cape's circular mark] Jonathan Cape Eleven Gower Street, London
No imprint
[A]4 B-N4(±L2+3); double endleaves front and back, a grey pair next the boards made onto a white laid pair; folded map insert 9 ¾" × 11 ¾" after N4 tipped onto free white endleaf.
[1-5] 6-8 [9-11] 12-19 [20] 21-8 [29] 30-48 [49] 50-61 [62] 63-8 [69] 70-103 [+1].
Crown 8o: trimmed 7⅛" × 4 ½", white wove, no mark,and in L2-L3 white laid, Haesbeek; 12pt. Imprint with 3-line dropped initials; line blocks; casing, spine white buckram, with printed paper label up: ‘* HANDBOOK OF WINE. WM. J. TODD *’; boards puce laid paper, upper cover label, white laid paper, 1⅜" × 3⅜" printed: ‘[within a border of stars **] A HANDBOOK OF WINE *’; printed dust-jacket.
In L 2 line blocks had been printed in the wrong order; to remedy this a 4-page cancel was printed, but on Haesbeek paper; the cancelling leaves show heavy impression and some set-off; on 'Todd's Wine Book' see Simon 1973, p.145.
4/Oct/1922
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 11/Oct/2020
