1923 Fb ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: W.P.7332
Curwen Press: C23

Title page

[A]4r

[within a flowers and rule border] THE BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS | EDITED BY G. B. HARRISON | [flower] | ROBERT GREENE, M.A. | A NOTABLE DISCOVERY OF | COOSNAGE | 1591 | THE SECOND PART OF | CONNY-CATCHING | 1592 | [rule] | [Bodley Head mark] | [rule] | Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd | Vigo Street, London, W.1

Imprint

[A]4v

Series

[A]3r

I | BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS

Collation

[A]8 B-H[A]8; inserts before [A]6 and E3.

Pagination

[11] 8-15 [16-7] 18-61 [+6] 6-59 [+3].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7⅛" × 5", top edge only trimmed, white laid, no mark, inserts of white wove; 12pt. Caslon, with dropped initials; facsimiles of original title-pages on the inserts; line blocks in text; on B3r(enlarged detail from original t.p.), E7v, F5r, and F8r (enlarged detail from t.p.); casing, light brown cloth, blocked in blue on spine divided by rules into 3 panels, top panel upwards: ‘ROBERT GREENE’, second panel upwards: ‘A NOTABLE DISCOVERY OF COOSNAGE. 1591. [flower] | [flower] THE SECOND PART OF CONNY-CATCHING. 1592’, bottom panel, across: ‘THE | BODLEY | HEAD’, and on upper cover: ‘[within frame of broad rules] ROBERT GREENE | [rule] | A NOTABLE DISCOVERY OF | COOSNAGE. 1591 [flower] THE SECOND | PART OF CONNY-CATCHING. 1592 | [2" diameter medallion: a man on horseback, as on E7v]’ and below it a scroll inscribed: ‘THE BODLEY HEAD | QUARTOS | I

Notes

The 'facsimile' title-pages in sepia in this series may be lithographs.

For fine-paper edition see Fbb, paperback edition at Fba..

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 15/Oct/2020

1923 Fba paperback edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C73

Title page (front cover), imprint and series

As Fb.

Collation and pagination

As Fb.

Technical description

Crown 8o: as Fb but trimmed 7" × 5"; paperback; green laid paper covers, front cover as t.p., printed up spine: ‘ROBERT GREENE. CONNY-CATCHING’; back cover and inside front cover printed with identical advertisements for the series.

Note

Paper-back edition not in B.L.; ordinary edition (cased) in B.L. see Fb.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Fbb fine-paper edition

Copies examined

British Library: 11771.dd.11
Curwen Press: C73

Title page, imprint and series

[A]4r

As Fb..

Limitation

[A]2v

(50)

Collation and pagination

As Fb.

Technical description

Crown 8o: as Fb but trimmed 7¼" × 5", top edge only trimmed, dark green, white laid, Van Gelder Zonen; inserts, type and illustrations as Fb; casing, spine white canvas blocked in dark green like Fb, boards in marbled paper predominantly green.

Note

B.L. copy numbered 6; for ordinary edition see Fb.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963