1924 Gf ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: W.P./7332/8
Curwen Press: C32

Title page

[A]2r

[within a flowers and rule border] THE BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS | EDITED BY G. B. HARRISON | [flower] | KING JAMES the FIRST | DÆMONOLOGIE | (1597) | NEWES FROM SCOTLAND | declaring the Damnable Life and death of | Doctor FIAN, a notable sorcerer who was burned at | Edenbrough in Ianuary last. | (1591) | [remainder as Ff].

Imprint

[A]2v

Series

[A]1r

IX | BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS

Collation

[A]8 B-H8.

Pagination

[i-v] vi-viii [ix-xi] xii-xv [xvi, 1] 2-26 [27] 28-55 [56] 57-81 [82, 1-7] 8-29 [+1].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7⅛" × 5", top edge only trimmed, white laid, no mark; 11pt. Caslon, 12pt. Caslon, with dropped initials; type decorations, facsimiles of original title-pages, line block illustrations; casing, light brown cloth blocked in blue like Fb.

Notes

For paper-back edition see Gfa.

For fine-paper edition see Gfb.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1924 Gfa paperback edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C32

Title page (front cover), imprint and series

[A]2r

As Gf.

Collation and pagination

As Gf.

Technical description

Paper, type and illustrations as Gf but trimmed 7" × 4⅞"; paperback; orange laid paper covers printed up spine: ‘KING JAMES THE FIRST, DAEMONOLOGIE (1597) | NEWES FROM SCOTLAND (1591)’, and across foot of spine: ‘2/6 | NET’, front cover as title-page, back cover bears advertisement for the series detailing volumes I-XIII.

Note

Paper-back edition not in B.L.; ordinary edition (cased) in B.L. see Fh.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1923 Gfb fine-paper edition

Copies examined

British Library: 11771.dd.11
Curwen Press: C32

Title page, imprint and series

[A]2r

As Gf.

Limitation

[A]1v

(50)

Collation and pagination

As Fh.

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7¼" × 5", top edge only trimmed, dark green,white laid, Unbleached Arnold; type and illustrations as Gf; casing, spine white canvas blocked in dark green like Fh, boards in marbled paper predominantly green.

Note

B.L. copy numbered 6; for ordinary edition see Fh.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963