| British Library: | Ac.9870.c/14 |
| Curwen Press: | J16 |
| British Library: | Ac.9870.c/14 |
| Curwen Press: | J16 |
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[within a double rule] A REPLY TO Z BY WILLIAM HAZLITT [small design in red, a 2-handled flaming urn] WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES WHIBLEY [swelled rule] PRINTED FOR THE FIRST EDITION CLUB LONDON `1923
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This edition is limited to three hundred copies printed in Baskerville type on hand-made paper This is number .....
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Royal 8o: top edge only trimmed and gilt, 10" × 6¼", white laid, lion rampant + BERGISCH GLADBACH; 14pt. Baskerville with some ligatures; title-page and imprint are Caslon; a row of urns in red like the t.p. block at head of pp.7 and 25; casing, spine red buckram, gold-blocked up: ‘A REPLY TO Z’; boards black buckram, on upper cover a gold fillet down the edge of the red buckram; printed dust-jacket.
According to the B.L. catalogue Z has now been identified as John Wilson, author of an article which appeared August 1818 in Blackwood's Magazine; This essay is a reply to that article.
The first use of Baskerville (Monotype) at Curwen Press.
For F Meynell's comment see Simon 1973 p.166.
See Simon 1973 p.163 for typographic comment.
B.L. copy numbered 250; ownership stamp in red, not the legal deposit copy.
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2019
