1923 Fc ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: W5/9926 DSC
British Library: W78/3439 DSC
Curwen Press: C25

Title page

[A]4r

[within a flowers and rule border] THE BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS | EDITED BY G. B. HARRISON | [flower] GABRIEL HARVEY | FOVRE LETTERS AND | certeine Sonnets, especially | touching Robert Greene | and other parties by him abused | 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

II | BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS

Collation

[A]8 B-G8; insert before [A]5.

Pagination

[11] 8-9 [10] 11-12 [13] 14-26 [27] 28-70 [71] 72-85 [86] 87-102 [+6].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7" × 4⅞" trimmed, white laid, no mark, insert of white wove; 12pt. Caslon with 2-line dropped initials; insert bears facsimile of original title-page; casing, saffron laid paper, printed up spine: ‘GABRIEL HARVEY. FOVRE LETTERS,’ similar to Fb, and on upper cover as title-page; back cover and verso of front cover printed with same advertisement as Fb.

Notes

For paperback edition see Fca.

For fine-paper edition see Fcb.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Fca paperback edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C25?

Title page (front cover), imprint and series

As Fc.

Collation and pagination

As Fc.

Technical description

Crown 8o: trimmed 7" × 4⅞", paper, type, illustrations and printed front cover like Fc; back cover and inside front cover printed with same advertisement as Fb.

Note

Paperback edition not in B.L.; ordinary edition (cased) in B.L. see Fc.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Fcb fine-paper edition

Copies examined

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

Title page, imprint and series

[A]4r

As Fc.

Limitation

[A]2v

(50)

Collation and pagination

As Fc.

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 Fc; casing, spine white canvas blocked in dark green like Fc, boards in marbled paper predominantly green.

Note

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

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963