1925 Hc ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: W.P.7332
Curwen Press: C37

Title page

[A]2r

[within a flowers and rule border] THE BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS | EDITED BY G. B. HARRISON | [flower] | SAMUEL DANIEL | A DEFENCE OF RYME | Against a Pamphlet entituled: | Obervations in the Art of English Poesie | 1603 | THOMAS CAMPION | OBSERVATIONS IN THE | ART OF ENGLISH POESIE | 1602 | [rule, and remainder as Ff].

Imprint

[A]2v

Series

[A]1r

XIV | BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS

Collation

[A]8 B-F8 G6.

Pagination

[i-v] vi-vii [viii-x, 1-3] 4-45 [46-54] 1-43 [+1].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7⅛" × 5", top edge only trimmed, white laid, no mark; 12(+1½)pt. Caslon; facsimiles of original title-pages; casing, light brown cloth blocked in blue like Fb.

Notes

For paper-back edition see Hca.

For fine-paper edition see Hcb.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1925 Hca paperback edition

Title page (front cover), imprint and series

[A]2r

As Hc.

Collation and pagination

As Hc.

Technical description

Paper, type and illustrations as Hc but trimmed 7" × 4⅞"; paperback; orange laid paper covers printed up spine: ‘SAMUEL DANIEL A DEFENCE OF RYME (1603) | THOMAS CAMPION OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESIE (1602)’, and across foot of spine: ‘2/6 | NET’, front cover as title-page; back cover advertisement like Gfa.

Note

Paperback edition not in B.L., ordinary edition (cased) in B.L. see Gg.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1925 Hcb fine-paper edition

Copies examined

British Library: 11771.dd.11
Curwen Press: C37

Title page, imprint and series

[A]2r

As Hc.

Limitation

[A]1v

(50)

Collation and pagination

As Hc.

Technical description

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

Note

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

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963