1922 Er

Copies examined

British Library: 011648.g.133

Title page

[A]4r

SONGS OF THE BIRDS | By WALTER GARSTANG, M.A., D.Sc. | Professor of Zoology in the University of Leeds; sometime Fellow of Lincoln Coll., Oxford | WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J.A. SHEPHERD | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED | VIGO STREET LONDON W.1 MCMXXII

Imprint

[A]4v

Note

[A]5r

Bears dedicatory poem to W. Warde Fowler, who died June 1921. Accompanying text complains of publishing delay!

Collation

[A]8 B-G8; [A]1 and G8 are pastedowns.

Pagination

[14] 11-17 [18] 19-42 [43-6] 47 [48] 49 [50] 51-67 [68] 69-75 [76] 77-82 [83] 84-91 [92] 93-7 [98] 99-101 [+7].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7¼" × 5", top edge only trimmed and blue,white wove, no mark; 12pt. Caslon; printed music throughout, line block illustrations by Shepherd on [A]1v, [A]2r, G7v, G8r; casing, spine blue buckram gold-blocked: ‘[5 fillets] | SONGS | OF THE | BIRDS | W. | GARSTANG | THE | BODLEY HEAD | [5 fillets]’, boards mottled grey and yellow paper, printed on upper cover with line block of birds around a nest.

Note

No copy of 1922 edition in Curwen Library. See Fza for revised and enlarged 1923 edition,

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2/Jul/2010