| Curwen Press: | M5 |
| Curwen Press: | M5 |
[1]3r
CHINESE BRONZES By W. PERCEVAL YETTS [line block 4"×5", formalised drawing of a fowl] LONDON: M DCCCC XXV
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[1]2v
Fifty copies of this article, which appeared in the Burlington Magazine Monograph entitled Chinese Art, have been reprinted for private circulation. Title-pages, index, and list of corrections and additions have been added to the reprint. This is Number
[1-3]4 [4]2(χ2 tipped onto linen guard before [4]1 and single leaf tipped onto same guard after [4]2) [5-6]4 [7]6([7]6+χ1).
[8] 1-23 [+33].
Royal 4o: 129⁄16" × 9½", trimmed, [1] and [4]1+2, single leaf insert after [4]2 white laid, Abbey Mills Greenfield; [2-3] and χ1-2 white wove no mark, [5-7] white loaded paper calendered both sides; Caslon on all white laid leaves, though several wrong fount swash letters appear on [1]2v; remainder in a different face, presumably set for the Burlington Magazine. line block illustrations in text, colour halftone block on leaf after [4]2, monochrome halftones on all rectos in [5-7]; casing, russet cloth overlapping 2¼" onto boards, boards patterned paper, blue with russet printed pattern of dragons, upper cover printed on cloth top left: ‘CHINESE BRONZES * W PERCEVAL YETTS’; the paper covering the boards is also used for the endleaves, which have joints of russet cloth.
The collation and the differing papers suggest that only the laid leaves were printed by Curwen.
Curwen copy examined was un-numbered.
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 1/Oct/2020
