1923 Fj

[1-7]⁴ (2 leaves inserted after [1]3, frontispiece and protective tissue), then [8-17] are made of single wove leaves sewn as 4-leaf sections, with plates printed on their rectos, linen guards forming the joints, and protective bank paper tissues for each plate, tipped in: one at the centre of each section, one conjugate pair around the inner pair of plates, and another around the outer pair of plates; this results in an alternation of 9-leaf and 7-leaf sections — [8, 10, 12, 14, 16]⁹, [9, 11, 13, 15]⁷ each protective tissue bearing number and caption (printed red) of the plate following; the final tissue of a 9-leaf section thus protects the plate on the first recto of the next section (7-leaf) — and finally [17]⁶, having only 6 leaves as [17]4 bears no plate and needs no tissue to protect it.

Sections [1, 2] un-paged, then: [1] 2-16 [17] 18-23 [24-5] 26-39 [40], then sections [8-17] un-paged.

Imperial 4^o: 13⅛" × 10" (see note below), trimmed, top edge only trimmed and gilt, white wove, no mark, white wove protective bank paper tissues printed in red with captions of plates beneath; [10]4^r is of a different bank paper, heavier and more opaque; 14pt. Imprint with 4-line dropped initials; collotypes, 8 in colour, 18 monochrome, and 13pp. line blocks. Frontispiece on insert in [1] and plates on rectos of wove leaves in [8-17]; casing, boards black buckram, gold-blocked up spine: ‘CLAUD LOVAT FRASER’; printed dust-jacket.

Claud Lovat Fraser died 18/Jun/1921; this memorial volume was written by Drinkwater and Rutherston, his close friends; see Simon 1956 p.79 and also Gilmour 1977 p.43.

Simon Simon 1973 p.238: Catalogue raisonné describes this edition as royal 4^o, priced 6 guineas (£6, 6s.).

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.

B.L. copy numbered 445, has all its plates; Curwen Library copy (un-numbered) lacked plates 1, 12,17, 21, so leaves [8]2^r, [10]4^r, [12]2^r, [13]1^r were blank (though the numbers and captions of these plates had been printed on the preceding tissue leaves) and only 2 leaves of tissue are tipped in to section [17]; either Curwen retained for their Library a defective copy, or these 4 plates were removed after the copy was added to the Curwen Library.

Collotypes probably printed by Charles Whittingham and Griggs.

1/Aug/1923

• Drinkwater, John, 1882–1937 IMDb NPG ODNB
• Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890–1921 NPG ODNB
  • see Simon (1973) p.152, Gilmour (1977) pp.40-42
• Imprint
  • 1913, by J. H. Mason, for Gerard Meynell's periodical Imprint;
  • 1912, Monotype;
  • See Moran 1971 pp.38 125-8.
• Imprint, 14pt.
• J. Curwen & Sons, London. Centenary Exhibition (1963 : Bloomsbury)
• Jackson, Holbrook, 1874–1948 NPG
• Rutherston, Albert, 1881–1953 NPG ODNB
  • see Gilmour (1977) pp.42-45 and Simon (1973) p.215; uncle of Oliver Simon.
• William Heinemann, London