1924 Gzc

Copies examined

British Library: 11686.i.44
Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: Simon 92
Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: Simon 93

Title page

[A]3r

[within a triple-rule border] WALT WHITMAN | * | A STUDY | AND | A SELECTION | BY | GERALD BULLETT | * | GRANT RICHARDS LTD. | LONDON | 1924

Imprint

[A]3v

Half title

[A]2v

Limitation

[A]1v

This edition is limited to 750 copies for sale in Great Britain.

Note

[A]5v

Note | Readers who desire a more detailed | biography of Whitman are referred | to the volume by Mr. Bliss Perry | and to the volume by Mr. H. B. | Binns, both of which have been | helpful to me. To Whitman's auto- | biography, Specimen Days, my debt | is heavier. | G. B.

Collation

[A]8 B8 [C]8 D-L8.

Pagination

[11] 4-24 [25-7] 28-48 [49-51] 52-109 [110] 111-7 [118] 119-28 [129] 130-4 [135] 136-41 [142-3] 144 [145] 146-53 [154] 155 [156-7] 158-63 [164] 165-6 [+2].

Technical description

9¾" × 6⅜", top edge only trimmed, maroon, white laid, no mark; 12(+1)pt. Baskerville; casing, spine black cloth, gold-blocked: ‘WALT | WHITMAN | * | A Study | & | A Selection | by | GERALD | BULLETT | GRANT | RICHARDS’, boards of Simon 92 brown batik pattern; boards of Simon 93 blue batik pattern.

Notes

See Simon 1973 p.240: Catalogue raisonné states this edition was limited to 750 copies, on English mould-made paper; not in 1963 handlist or in Curwen Library; drawn to my attention by Douglas Ball.

The Aberystwyth copies at Simon 92 and 93 appear identical except for the colour of the batik pattern on the boards.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 16/8/2012