1925 Hg fine-paper edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C19

Title page

[A]2r

A | CHATTO & WINDUS | ALMANACK | 1926 | 97 & 99 ST. MARTIN'S LANE | LONDON

Imprint

[A]2v

Limitation

[A]1v

Of this Special Edition of | A CHATTO & WINDUS ALMANACK 1926 | there have been printed on hand-made | paper two hundred & fifty copies | This is number | ............

Collation

[A]8(insert before [A]1) B-K8, single leaf inserts after C4 D4 F4 G4 I4 and before E1.

Pagination

[40] 31-41 [42] 43-63 [64] 65-85 [86] 87-95 [96] 97-109 [110] 111-115 [116] 117-51 [+1].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7⅜" × 5", top edge only trimmed, white laid, P M Fabriano Perugia, + crowned winged lion rampant above Perugia, inserts in C-I are white wove, no mark; 12pt. Imprint with 3-line dropped initials; line block illustrations, colour printing in yellow green grey pink, on [A]5r and C2v, and red+black on versos between them; collotype illustrations on inserts in C-I; casing, spine yellow cloth gold-blocked: ‘A | CHATTO | & | WINDUS | ALMA- | NACK | 1926’, boards white paper, upper cover printed: ‘A | CHATTO & WINDUS | ALMANACK | [block as on C2v but in black] | LONDON | 1926

Notes

For paper-back edition, see Hga.

Holbrook Jackson Re ascribes these illustrations to Rutherston; B.L. copy stamped 30/Nov/1993 in red, indicating purchase not legal deposit; watermark of fine-paper edition shows this paper comes from Fabriano, in Perugia, capital of Umbria, Italy.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 12/Jul/2014

1925 Hga paper-back edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C19

Title page

As Hg.

Collation

As Hg but: no insert before [A]2 with limitation notice.

Pagination

AsHg.

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7¼" × 4¾", trimmed, white laid, no mark, inserts in C-I are white wove, no mark; type and illustrations as Hg; blue paper wrappers, spine printed in blue: ‘A | CHATTO | & | WINDUS | ALMA- | NACK | 1926 | [double wavy rule, double rule]’, and on upper cover: ‘[within a rule, a double wavy rule, and a double rule] A | CHATTO & WINDUS | ALMANACK | 1926

Note

For fine-paper edition, see Hg.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 12/Jul/2014