1923 Ff ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: W25/8199 DSC
British Library: W,P.7332/5
Curwen Press: C28

Title page

[A]2r

[within a flowers and rule border] THE BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS | EDITED BY G. B. HARRISON | [flower] | BEN JONSON | DISCOVERIES | 1641 | CONVERSATIONS WITH | WILLIAM DRUMMOND | OF HAWTHORNDEN | 1619 | [rule] | [Bodley Head mark] | [rule] | Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd | Vigo Street, London, W.1, and by | E. P. Dutton & Company, New York

Imprint

[A]2v

Series

[A]3r

V | BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS

Collation

[A]4 B-I8; insert before [A]3.

Pagination

[1-5] 6-106 [107-8, 1-3] 4-28.

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7⅛" × 5", top edge only trimmed, white laid, no mark, insert of same paper; no endleaves; 12pt. Caslon with 2-line dropped initials; insert bears facsimile of original title-page and verso; casing, light brown cloth blocked in blue similarly to Fb.

Notes

For paperback edition see Ffa.

For fine-paper edition see Ffb.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Ffa paperback edition

Title page (front cover), imprint and series

[A]4r

As Ff.

Collation and pagination

As Ff.

Technical description

Crown 8o: paper, type, and illustrations as Ff but trimmed 7" × 4⅞"; paperback; covers brick-red card with yellow laid paper wrappers round, printed up spine: ‘BEN JONSON DISCOVERIES AND CONVERSATIONS’ and across foot of spine: ‘2/6 | NET’, back cover bears printed advertisement like Fb.

Note

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

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Ffb fine-paper edition

Copies examined

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

Title page, imprint and series

[A]4r

As Ff.

Limitation

[A]1v

(50)

Collation and pagination

As Ff.

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7¼" × 5", top edge only trimmed and dark green, white laid, Unbleached Arnold; type and illustrations as Ff; casing, spine white canvas blocked in dark green like Ff, boards in marbled paper predominantly green.

Note

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

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963