| Curwen Press: | E21 |
| Curwen Press: | E21 |
| British Library: | C.98.h.2 |
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GENESIS TWELVE WOODCUTS BY PAUL NASH WITH THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS IN THE AUTHORISED VERSION * THE NONESUCH PRESS SOHO MCMXXIV
[A]4v
THE EDITION IS LIMITED TO THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE COPIES * THE CUTS ARE PRINTED FROM THE WOOD AND THE TEXT IN RUDOLPH KOCH'S NEULAND TYPE ON ZANDERS HAND-MADE PAPER BY THE CURWEN PRESS FOR THE NONESUCH PRESS * THIS IS NUMBER
[A]4 [B-H]4; [A]1 and H4 are pastedowns, no other endleaves.
No paging.
Crown 4o: 10⅝" × 7", uncut, white laid, J W Zanders ; 16⅔pt. Koch Neuland by Rudolf Koch, hand set, bought by Nonesuch from Klingspor foundry 1923; 12 wood engravings on rectos B3 C1 C3 etc to H1; in each section ff1v 2r 3v 4r are blank, as the bolts at the heads of the pages are intended to stay uncut; casing, black paper gold-blocked down spine: ‘GENESIS’, and across head of upper cover: ‘GENESIS’, and stars and crosses alternating in decoration at foot of upper cover; dust-jacket (lacking on Curwen copy).
See wood engraving:Curwen 1934 pp.[1]-10; weight of typeface to suit illustrations:Simon 1956 p.84 and note.
importance of damping handmade paper: Moxon 1962 p.278,Simon 1956 p.84,
This book seems to have been the first that Curwen printed for Nonesuch Press.
See Simon 1973 p.239,
Dreyfus 1981 cat. 14: ordered Feb 1924; originally to be 10 wood engravings; describes illustrations; dust-jacket, and Meynell's copy bound in black morocco by Bain.
Curwen copy examined was un-numbered, and had no dust-jacket.
30/Apr/1924
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 29/May/2023
