1926 Ih limited edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C20

Copies located

British Library: P.P.6704.g.6

Title page

[A]2r

A Chatto & Windus | Almanack | 1927 | With designs by | STANLEY SPENCER | [line block: 2 children with a book] | LONDON | 97&99 St. Martin's Lane | W.C.2

Imprint

[A]2v

Limitation

[A]1r

(250)

Collation

[A]8 B-M8 N6.

Pagination

[1-174] 175-202 [+2].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 6⅝" × 5", top edge only trimmed, white wove, P.M.P; 12pt. Caslon; line blocks; casing, spine unbleached linen, printed paper label: ‘[decorative rule] | A | CHATTO | & | WINDUS | ALMANACK | 1927 | [decorative rule]’, boards brown laid paper; spare spine label tipped inside lower cover.

Note

See Simon 1956, p.80; according to Pat Gilmour, 1977 p.28 this is the only book ever illustrated by Stanley Spencer.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1926 Iha ordinary edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: C22

Title page

[A]2r

As Ih.

Imprint

As Ih.

Collation and pagination

As Ih.

Technical description

Demy 8o: 6½" × 5116", trimmed,white wove, no mark; type and illustrations as Ih; wrappers, green wove paper, spine printed up: ‘[within a decorative rule] A | Chatto & Windus | Almanack | 1927 | [line block as on t.p.] | LONDON | 97&99 St. Martin's Lane | W.C.2

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963