1925 Hr

Copies examined

British Library:	0116465.ee.149
Curwen Press:	C40

Title page

[A]2^r

[within a decorative double rule] ISLAND BLOOD | BY | F. R. HIGGINS | With a foreword by | A.E. | JOHN LANE | THE BODLEY HEAD LTD | LONDON

Imprint

[A]2^v

Collation

[A]⁸ B-F⁸.

Pagination

[i-viii] ix-xii [xiii-xiv] 1-74 [+8].

Technical description

Crown 8^o: 7½" × 5", top edge only trimmed and grey, white laid, Abbey Mills Greenfield; 10(+3)pt. Caslon with dropped initials; casing, grey-brown buckram, spine gold-blocked: ‘Island | Blood | F.R. | Higgins | THE | BODLEY HEAD’

Notes

Curwen copy lacks casing.

A.E. or Æ was the pseudonym of George William Russell, Irish poet and writer.

Legal deposit date

11/Mar/1925

See also

AE, 1867–1935 see also Russell, George William, 1867–1935 (real identity) NPG ODNB
Caslon
Caslon, 10pt.
Higgins, F. R. (Frederick Robert), 1896–1941 ODNB
John Lane the Bodley Head, London see also Bodley Head, London (later heading)

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jul/2011