1923 Fk

Copies examined

Curwen Press: A34

Title page

[A]4r

THE CURTAIN OF | FORGETFULNESS | BY WILLIAM LINDSEY | PREFATORY NOTE BY E.M.TENISON | [1½" diameter circular design, in blue] | Illustrations by Evelyn Paul [in blue] | LONDON | THE MEDICI SOCIETY LTD. | 1923

Imprint

[A]4v

Limitation

[A]1v

(1,000)

Collation

[A]8 B-D4; inserts follow [A]3 B4 C2 C3 C4 and inserted pairs after B1 B3 D1 D3 and round B.

Pagination

[14] 7-31 [+1].

Technical description

Medium 8o: 9" × 6", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white wove, no mark, heavy handmade, varying from white to cream with even a tinge of pink; 14pt. Imprint with 2-line dropped initials; 11 colour collotypes on white loaded paper, tipped by one edge into yellow ochre printed frame 6½" × 4¼" on the verso of insert in [A] and rectos of other inserts; casing, spine brown leather, gold-blocked up: ‘THE CURTAIN OF FORGETFULNESS’, boards in blue-grey paper, upper cover gold-blocked: ‘THE CURTAIN OF | FORGETFULNESS | WILLIAM LINDSEY’; printed dust-jacket.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963