| British Library: | 011645.f.3 |
| Curwen Press: | B3 |
| British Library: | 011645.f.3 |
| Curwen Press: | B3 |
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[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
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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
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[7] 6-7 [8] 9-17 [18] 19-49 [+5]; [1]1 & [7]4 are pastedowns.
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
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).
21/Mar/1922
NPG ODNB
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2010
| Curwen Press: | D5 |
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As Eo.
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As Eo but final line omitted.
As Eo.
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.
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."
NPG ODNB
Robin Phillips, 1963