| British Library: | BL 012511.bb.5/1 |
| Curwen Press: | D40 |
| British Library: | BL 012511.bb.5/1 |
| Curwen Press: | D40 |
[A]3r
THE FAIRY DOLL (LA POUPÉE) Translated from the French of JEAN-GALLI DE BIBIENA by H. B. V. With an Introduction by SHANE LESLIE [line-block in red: a nosegay] [flower] 1925 [flower] CHAPMAN & HALL LTD. LONDON
[A]3v
[A]2r
Eighteenth-century French romances
See Ic [A]2v listed as no. I.
[A]1v
1,000 for England and America.
[A]8 B-L8.
[i-ix] x-xv [xvi-xx, 1] 2-153 [+3].
Demy 8o: 8 ¾" × 5 ⅝", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white laid, Ellerslie above a unicorn on a scroll; 14pt. Garamond; line block decorations in red on [A]3r and B3r; casing, spine buff cloth gold-blocked: ‘THE FAIRY DOLL * JEAN-GALLI DE BIBIENA CHAPMAN & HALL’, boards in patterned paper Kzb no.12; dust-jacket of same paper with printed label above upper cover and pen-and-ink label over spine.
First published Amsterdam chez Pierre Paupie, 1748.
H. B. V. stands for Vyvyan B. Holland, general editor of this series.
Line blocks see Hj p.39 by Albert Rutherston
The whole series is printed on Ellerslie paper, but it seems only this first volume shows the unicorn+scroll watermark.
13/Nov/1925
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Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 10/Jun/2023