1923 Fi signed edition

Copies examined

British Library: 11643.n.5
Curwen Press: D8

Title page

[1]4r

A BOX OF PAINTS | BY GEOFFREY SCOTT | WITH DRAWINGS | BY | ALBERT RUTHERSTON | LONDON | AT THE OFFICE OF | THE BOOKMAN'S JOURNAL | 1923

Imprint

[1]4v

Colophon

[6]2r

A BOX OF PAINTS. BY GEOFFREY SCOTT | WITH DRAWINGS BY ALBERT RUTHERSTON | ISSUED TO SUBSCRIBERS | FROM THE OFFICE OF | 'THE BOOKMAN'S JOURNAL,' | LONDON, AND PRINTED ON | BATCHELOR'S KELMSCOTT | PAPER AT THE CURWEN | PRESS, SEPTEMBER, 1923

Limitation

[1]3v

This edition is limited to 150 copies, | each signed by the author and artist | and numbered, of which 130 are | for sale | This is No. [1½" lower down Scott's signature appears in black]

Collation

[1-6]4; outermost leaves, [1]1 and [6]4, used as paste-downs.

Pagination

[+1] 9-10 [11] 12-21 [22] 23-6 [27] 28-30 [31] 32-3 [34] 35-6 [+8].

Technical description

Crown 4o: top edge only trimmed and gilt, 9⅝" × 7", white laid, anvil + mallet; 14(+1)pt. Garamond with ligatures; 9 line block illustrations, 7 of them in colour, green, yellow: red, salmon, blue-grey and brown-grey; casing, white buckram, gold-blocked up spine: ‘A BOX OF PAINTS. — SCOTT & RUTHERSTON’, and on upper cover: ‘A BOX OF PAINTS | POEMS | BY GEOFFREY SCOTT | WITH DRAWINGS | BY | ALBERT RUTHERSTON’; printed dust-jacket.

Notes

A seal: ‘British Hand Made’ sometimes appears as a countermark to the anvil + mallet.

Curwen copy examined was un-numbered.

Description "poems" appears only on cover!

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Fia limited edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: D11

Title page

[1]4r

As Fi.

Imprint

As Fi.

Colophon

[6]2r

| ... THIS EDITION CON- | SISTS OF 1,000 COPIES

Collation and pagination

As Fi.

Technical description

Crown 4o: trimmed 9½" × 6⅞",white laid, Abbey Mills Greenfield; type, illustrations and endleaves as Fi; casing, spine blue cloth, gold-blocked up spine as Fi, boards in brown Roma paper; printed dust-jacket.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2/Jul/2010