1923 Fa

Copies examined

British Library: 12585.eee.10
Curwen Press: C12

Title page

[A]2r

The | BEST POEMS | of 1922 | [Cape's circular mark] | Selected | by THOMAS MOULT & | Decorated by | PHILIP HAGREEN | Jonathan Cape, Eleven Gower Street | LONDON

Imprint

[K]8v

Collation

[A]8 B-K8.

Pagination

[6] vii-xiii [xiv] 1-7 [8] 9-145 [+1].

Technical description

Crown 8o: top edge only trimmed, 7⅜"×5" white laid, Antique de luxe; 12pt. Garamond, with 2-line dropped initials and ligatures; decorative endleaves; casing, Batik decorative paper in blue and brown, spine printed paper label: ‘The | BEST | POEMS | of 1922’; printed dust-jacket bearing on front the question  ‘Do you like the Binding | of this Book?’.

Notes

B.L. catalogue indicates that this series ran from 1923–1944; only the 1922 issue is described above.

See Simon 1973 p163 for typographic comments.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2019