1925 Hv

Copies examined

British Library: 012511.bb.5/2
Curwen Press: D41

Title page

[A]3r

[asterisks red, remainder of print black] THE OPPORTUNITIES | OF A NIGHT | * * * | * | Translated by | ERIC SUTTON | from | LA NUIT ET LE MOMENT | by | M. de CRÉBILLON le FILS | * | With an Introduction by | ALDOUS HUXLEY | [rule] | Haec legite, Austeri, crimen amoris abest. — Ovid | [rule] | * 1925 * | CHAPMAN & HALL LTD | LONDON

Imprint

[A]3v

Note

Listed in Ic [A]2v as no. II in series Eighteenth-century French romances edited by Vyvyan B. Holland.

Limitation

[A]1v

1,000 for England and America.

Collation

[A]4 B-N8 (± F4 )O10.

Pagination

[i-ix] x-xxv [xxvi-xxx 1] 2-187 [+3].

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8¾" × 5¾", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white laid, Ellerslie; 14pt. Garamond; casing, spine buff cloth gold-blocked: ‘THE | OPPORTUNITIES | OF A | NIGHT | * | CRÉBILLON | CHAPMAN | & HALL’, boards white laid paper printed black red and blue with pattern Kzb no.9; dust-jacket of same patterned paper with printed label over upper cover.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963