1923 Fd ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: WP 7332
Curwen Press: C26

Copies located

British Library: W5/9816 DSC
British Library: 824.3 *1680* DSC

Title page

[A]2r

[within a flowers and rule border] THE BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS | EDITED BY G. B. HARRISON | [flower] | ROBERT GREENE, M.A. | THE THIRDE & LAST | Part of Conny-Catching. | With the new devised knavish | Art of Foole-taking. The like | Cosenages and Villenies neuer be- | fore discovered. | A DISPVTATION BE- | tweene a Hee Conny-catcher | and a Shee Conny-catcher. | [rule] | [Bodley Head mark] | [rule] | Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd | Vigo Street, London, W.1

Imprint

[A]2v

Series

[A]1r

III | BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS

Collation

[A]8 B-I8; inserts before [A]3 and D7.

Pagination

[1-5] 6-7 [8-9] 10-56 [57-58, 1-3] 4-7 [8-9] 10-82 [+4].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7⅛" × 5", top edge only trimmed, white laid, no mark, inserts of white wove; 12pt. Caslon with 2- and 3-line dropped initials; inserts bear facsimiles of original title-pages, [A]4v bears line block illustration, enlarged detail of original t.p.; casing light brown cloth blocked in blue like Fb.

Notes

For paperback edition see Fda.

For fine-paper edition see Fdb.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Fda paperback edition

Title page (front cover), imprint and series

[A]2r

As Fd.

Collation and pagination

As Fd.

Technical description

Crown 8o paper, type and illustrations as Fd but trimmed 6⅞" × 4⅞"; blue laid paper covers, printed up spine: ‘ROBERT GREENE CONNY-CATCHING. LAST PART’ and across foot of spine: ‘2/6 | NET’; front cover as t.p., back cover printed with advertisement as Fb.

Note

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

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Fdb fine-paper edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C26

Copies located

British Library: 11771.dd.11

Title page, imprint and series

[A]4r

As Fd.

Limitation

π1v

(50)

Collation

π1, then collation and inserts as Fd.

Pagination

[2] then as Fd.

Technical description

Crown 8o: as Fbb but white laid, Unbleached Arnold, inserts as Fc; type and illustrations as Fd; casing, spine white canvas blocked in dark green like Fd, boards in marbled paper predominantly green.

Note

B.L. copy numbered 6; for ordinary edition see Fd; Unbleached Arnold paper, used for the rest of this series, was made by Spicers at Eynsford, Sevenoaks (Kent) from linen fibre.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963