1925 Hl

Copies examined

British Library: Ac.9670.c/4
British Library: 012*142* DSC
Curwen Press: A41

Title page

[A]2r

A BIBLIOGRAPHY | OF THE FIRST EDITIONS OF PUBLISHED | AND PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS | AND PAMPHLETS BY | AUSTIN DOBSON | Compiled by | ALBAN DOBSON | With a Preface by | SIR EDMUND GOSSE, C.B. | LONDON | THE FIRST EDITION CLUB | 1925

Imprint

[A]2v

Limitation

[A]2v

This, the eighth book printed for | The First Edition Club, is limited | to an edition of 500 copies, this | being No............

Collation

[A]8 B-F8 G4.

Pagination

[i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii-xiv] 1-88 [+2].

Technical description

Foolscap 4o: 7⅛" × 6½", trimmed, top edge gilt, artificial headband white wove, Basingwerk Parchment; 11pt. Caslon; line blocks: 4 facsimiles of MSS by Dobson, and 2 bookplates printed from line blocks; casing, red buckram over bevelled boards, spine gold-blocked: ‘AN | AUSTIN | DOBSON | BIBLIO- | GRAPHY | A.T.A. | DOBSON | F.E.C. | 1925

Notes

Curwen copy examined was numbered 46.

This copy bears inside the upper cover the bookplate of Robert Arundell Hudson, and on the facing leaf, in his handwriting: ‘I, Robert Hudson, give this | volume, with my love, to | Garve [?] Hill Hall | Jan. 1927.’ On the inside of the upper cover 2 prices, 15/- and 10/-, appear in pencil. Curwen's bookplate overlaps that of Hudson.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jun/2011