1925 Hzd edition de luxe

Copies examined

British Library: 01235.b.18
Curwen Press: B57

Title page

[A]2r

TRUE DIALOGUES OF | THE DEAD | Compiled by | FRANCIS BICKLEY | [line block in red: 3 cornucopias] | GUY CHAPMAN | LONDON | 1925

Imprint

[A]2v

Limitation

[A]1v

(200)

Collation

[A]8 B-K8; insert before [A]1.

Pagination

[11] 4-10 [11-3] 14-5 [16-9] 20 [21-3] 24-30 [31-3] 34-43 [44-7] 48-58 [59-61] 62-9 [70-3] 74-80 [81-3] 84-92 [93-5] 96-101 [102-5] 106-13 [114-7] 118-9 [120-3] 124-30 [131-3] 134-42 [143-5] 146-50 [+2].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7½" × 4¾", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white laid, Van Gelder Zonen; 12pt. Imprint; casing, maroon cloth, gold-blocked across spine: ‘True | Dialogues | of the | Dead | [then at foot] | Guy | Chapman

Notes

See Simon 1973 p.241: Catalogue raisonné states 'there is also an edition de luxe of 200 copies on Van Gelder paper, with Rutherston design on the title-page in red, bound full cloth boards, gilt top'; ordinary edition has cloth back and paper boards, no copy yet traced.

B.L. copy numbered 8; has Rutherston design on t.p. but lacks insert in [A].

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Apr/2013