| British Library: | 011645.ee.60 |
| Curwen Press: | B50 |
| British Library: | 011645.ee.60 |
| Curwen Press: | B50 |
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A GARLAND OF ELIZABETHAN SONNETS LONDON LEONARD PARSONS 1923
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This Edition is limited to 500 copies of which this is No. [within a 4-sided design of flowers] PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS PLAISTOW
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[14] 1-34 [+8].
Foolscap 4o: top edge only trimmed 7½" × 5¾, white laid, J W Zanders; 10pt. Garamond; flowers in a double row around each text page; casing, spine buff buckram, gold-blocked up: ‘ELIZABETHAN SONNETS’, boards in Rizzi patterned paper, red and green flowers on light brown, with white paper label on upper cover: ‘[within a double row of flowers] A GARLAND OF ELIZABETHAN SONNETS’; tissue dust-jacket.
B.L. copy is no.38; see Balston (1951) p.24, 'Oliver in thrall to a fashion of the day ... bordering all its pages with Monotype flowers'; one of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
2/Oct/1923
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2/Jul/2010