1922 Eo ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: 011645.f.3
Curwen Press: B3

Title page

[1]4r

[within a frame 8" × 5"] Poems | from the works of | Charles | COTTON | Newly decorated by | CLAUD LOVAT FRASER | [cross-piece of frame, and below it a bowl overlowing with flowers] | The Poetry Bookshop | 35 Devonshire Street | Theobalds Road | London, W.C.1

Imprint

[1]3r

The Poems selected by Claud Lovat Fraser. | This Edition is printed | by Harold Curwen | at the Curwen Press, | Plaistow, and published | 14 March, 1922 | [flower design] | Second Thousand

Collation

[1-7]4.

Pagination

[7] 6-7 [8] 9-17 [18] 19-49 [+5]; [1]1 & [7]4 are pastedowns.

Technical description

Demy 8o: trimmed 8½" × 5 ½", white laid, Abbey Mills; 11pt. Caslon; head- and tail-pieces in black to each page of verse; casing, spine blue cloth, yellow paper label printed up: ‘POEMS. CHARLES COTTON’, boards yellow paper, upper cover printed: ‘POEMS | From the Works of | CHARLES COTTON | Newly decorated by | CLAUD LOVAT FRASER | [block on upper board as at foot of p.30]’; printed dust-jacket

Notes

For large-paper edition, see Eoa.

Reprinted and restyled by Curwen, see Gilmour 1977, p.42.

Bumpus catalogue 1929 calls this 'Lovat Fraser's most successful decorated book', (Simon 1973 p.150).

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2010

1922 Eoa large-paper edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: D5

Title page

[1]4r

As Eo.

Imprint

[1]3r

As Eo but final line omitted.

Collation and pagination

As Eo.

Technical description

Demy 8o: top edge only trimmed 8⅞" × 6", white wove, handmade, no mark; all margins wider than Eo; casing, white buckram, gold-blocked up spine: ‘CHARLES COTTON’, and upper cover:[instead of block from foot of p.30 bowl of flowers from middle of t.p.]; printed dust-jacket, of different design from Eo.

Notes

For ordinary issue (cloth spine and paper boards) see Eo.

Note in Curwen Index: "an extra 200 copies were printed on handmade paper and bound in full buckram."

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963