1926 Ie Special edition

Copies examined

British Library: P.P.2495.ak
Curwen Press: K22

Title page

[A]5r

[within decorative frame in brown, text in black] THE BIBLIOPHILE'S | ALMANACK | FOR 1927 | * | Edited by | OLIVER SIMON & HAROLD CHILD | THE FLEURON | LONDON

Imprint

[A]5v

Limitation

[A]3v

Of this Special Edition of | THE BIBLIOPHILE'S ALMANACK FOR 1927 | there have been printed on mould-made paper | three hundred and twenty-five copies | of which three hundred | are for sale. | This is No. | ............

Collation

[A]6 B-E8 F10; [A]1 used as pastedown, normal end-leaves after F10.

Pagination

[17] 6-12 [13] 14-7 [18-9] 20-3 [24-5] 26-30 [31] 32-3 [34-5] 36-40 [41] 42-59 [60-1] 62 [63] 64 [65] 66-8 [+16].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7⅜" × 5", top edge only trimmed, white wove, no mark ; 12pt. Caslon; line blocks, a pair of frames in brown similar to that on t.p. appears on B1v and B2r; casing, spine blue cloth, gold blocked: ‘THE | BIBLIO- | PHILE'S | ALMA- | NACK’, boards white paper, upper cover printed in brown, with red and blue: ‘[within a frame, a scroll with cherubs and wreath, and inside, in oblique script] THE | BIBLIOPHILE'S | ALMANACK | for | 1927 [the wreath has blue decoration, and the scroll is edged in red].

Note

The cheap edition at 2/6d is not in Curwen library or B.L. This 'best paper' edition was deposited with the B.L. as required by the Copyright Act 1911.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jul/2011

1926 Iea Cheap edition

Copies examined

Bodleian Library, Oxford: Alm.25805.e.47

Title page

[A]5r

As Ie.

Imprint

As Ie.

Collation

As Ie but after F10 a pair of endleaves is tipped on.

Pagination

As Ie.

Technical description

Crown 8o: As Ie but: 7¼" × 4⅞", trimmed, white laid, no mark ; wrappers, brown laid paper printed dark brown up spine: ‘THE BIBLIOPHILE'S ALMANACK 1927’, and on upper cover printed as Ie but below foot of frame is added: ‘2s. 6d. net’.

Note

No limitation or erratum slip.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963