1922 En

Copies examined

British Library: YA 1995.a.13730
British Library: W16/4748 DSC
Curwen Press: B67

Title page

[A]1r

NURSE LOVECHILD'S LEGACY | [rule] | BEING | A MIGHTY FINE COLLECTION | OF | THE MOST NOBLE, MEMORABLE | AND VERACIOUS | NURSERY | RHYMES | Embellished by C. Lovat Fraser | for the Poetry Bookshop | [flower design] | A NEW EDITION | (Fourth Thousand) | THE POETRY BOOKSHOP | 35 DEVONSHIRE STREET | THEOBALDS ROAD, LONDON, W.C.1 | 1922

Colophon

D7r

with Kzc unicorn no.7.

Collation

[A]8 B-D8.

Pagination

[1-4] 5 [6] 7-60 [61] 62-3 [+1].

Technical description

Crown 8o: trimmed 7¼" × 4⅞", white laid, Abbey Mills Greenfield ; 14pt. Imprint; every verse page has head- and tail-piece design printed black; casing, spine black cloth, paper label printed up: ‘NURSERY RHYMES’, boards purple laid paper, upper cover printed: ‘[within double border of flowers, triple at foot] A COLLECTION | of | NURSERY RHYMES | [block: two children] | THE POETRY BOOKSHOP | 35 DEVONSHIRE STREET | THEOBALDS ROAD | LONDON | W.C.1 | [then below border at right foot] HALF A CROWN NET

Note

B.L. copy at YA.1995.a.13730 is described as "New edition, 1922"; legal deposit copy not traced; red accession stamp 30/May/1995 indicates purchase not legal deposit; see Gilmour 1977, p.41-2: reprinted and restyled by Curwen.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963