1922 Em

Copies examined

British Library: 11644.dd.22
Curwen Press: B71

Title page

[1]2r

[within a border of flowers, red] A | LONG SPOON | AND THE DEVIL | Being | FISH | Quaint and Queer | From the Spoon River | The Property of Edgar Lee Masters | Poached by | HENRY SAVAGE | and | preserved | by | [block, a palmer] | CECIL PALMER | Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street | LONDON, W.C.I

Imprint

[8]4v

Collation

[1-8]4.

Pagination

[6] 1-56 [+2].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7⅜" × 5", top edge only trimmed,white wove, no mark; 11(+1½)pt. Imprint with 3-line dropped initials; line block illustrations in black green and red on [1]3 and [1]4 rectos, perhaps by Claud Lovat Fraser; casing, spine grey-brown buckram, boards patterned paper, white red and blue, upper cover label: ‘A | LONG | SPOON | AND | THE DEVIL | A Parody of the | Spoon River Anthology | HENRY SAVAGE

Note

Spoon River Anthology (1915) was written by Edgar Lee Masters; B.L. catalogue also describes this book as a parody on it.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2/Jul/2010