| British Library: | Case 98.h.6 |
| Curwen Press: | E41 |
| British Library: | Case 98.h.6 |
| Curwen Press: | E41 |
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[within a decorative frame] SONGS OF THE GARDENS [vignette: a lady and gentleman on a footbridge] Edited by PETER WARLOCK [3 short decorative rules] THE NONESUCH PRESS 1925
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This book has been produced under the direction of Hubert J. Foss and Francis Meynell. Eight hundred and seventy-five copies have been printed by the offset lithographic process at the Curwen Press. The music and its accompanying text have been engraved by Lowe & Brydone with the punches designed at the Oxford University Press for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust's Quarto Edition of Tudor Church Music, here used by permission of the Trustees. The title-page design has been made and engraved by Stephen Gooden; the miscellaneous eighteenth-century ornaments have been engraved in wood by W. M. R. Quick. This copy is number [space for serial no.]
[1-6]8; at front and back an extra pair of blank leaves is tipped in next to endleaves.
[1] 2-13 [14] 15-96.
Imperial 8o: 10⅜" × 7½", uncut, white laid, VAN GELDER ZONEN + unicorn's head + star on its horn; 14pt. Caslon; decorative frame round each page, pagination in top outer margin outside the frame; music and librettos reproduced by offset lithography; casing, full vegetable parchment, spine gold-blocked: ‘SONGS OF THE GAR- DENS’; patterned paper dust-jacket with printed label affixed over upper cover.
See Balston (1951) p.27, 'Harold Curwen revived the practice of reproducing copper engravings by lithography, employing it first on [this book]'
See Dreyfus 1981 cat. 25 for quantity 856; and for 5 designs of batik paper dust-wrappers.
Dreyfus 1981 cat. 25 gives publication date as 30/Apr/1924. If so the legal deposit copy must have been delayed.
On the problems of vegetable parchment as covering material see Dreyfus 1981 p. xv, 51: boards of the B.L. copy are concave.
28/Jul/1925
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Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jul/2011