| British Library: | Ac.9670.d. |
| Curwen Press: | F85 |
| British Library: | Ac.9670.d. |
| Curwen Press: | F85 |
| Durham University Library: | Hall 0216 |
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CLAUD LOVAT FRASER [decorative swelled rule] SIXTY-THREE UNPUBLISHED DESIGNS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOLBROOK JACKSON [block: a copse] THE FIRST EDITION CLUB 6 LITTLE RUSSELL STREET LONDON, W.C.1
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This Edition consists of 500 copies, printed on Ingres paper dyed by hand for this book, and bound in paper boards from a design by Lovat Fraser, now used for the first time This is number [space for serial number]
[A]6 B-I8.
[i-vi] vii-xi [+129].
Small Crown 8o: 6¼" × 4¾", top edge trimmed, yellow laid, Ingres d'Arches M B M FRANCE, dyed yellow at Plaistow; 11pt. Caslon; line blocks on rectos; casing, spine black cloth gold-blocked up: ‘CLAUD LOVAT FRASER: SIXTY-THREE UNPUBLISHED DESIGNS’, boards patterned paper designed by Fraser, Kzb no.5.
p.xii
[by A. J. A. Symons, Director of the First Edition Club] The designs were originally intended to accompany a planned edition of 'A Shropshire Lad'. The lyric sequence 'A Shropshire Lad' contains 63 numbered poems, and as Lovat Fraser's decorations are 63 in number, it was at first assumed that each drawing corresponded to a particular poem. A careful consideration of the drawings ... has enabled sixty of them to be so linked up, but three remain, which will not fit any individual poem ...
Date from B.L. Catalogue; Fraser died 18/Jun/1921.
One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
Simon Simon 1973 p.240: Catalogue raisonné says this edition was priced 10s. net, 6"×4½", see Gilmour 1977 p.42 for Housman's rejection of these designs. Note the disparity in page-size.
Durham University's copy numbered 335. Their Library staff kindly drew my attention to Symons's note.
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 4/Sep/2024
