| British Library: | 11643.dd.43 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | Simon 131 |
| British Library: | 11643.dd.43 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | Simon 131 |
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THE LIGHT OF ASIA
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[line 1 in open Caslon capitals] THE LIGHT OF ASIA BY SIR EDWIN ARNOLD A New Edition with Illustrations by HAMZEH CARR Introduction by SIR E. DENISON ROSS LONDON : JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD NEW YORK : DODD MEAD & COMPANY
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Three thousand numbered copies
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This edition of 'The Light of Asia' is published by arrangement with Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd. Published in 1926 Made and Printed in Great Britain at the CURWEN PRESS, Plaistow, London
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Also Illustrated by Hamzeh Carr . . . . . The Bodley Head
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[Dedication, set in capitals + small capitals] ‘This volume is dutifully inscribed to The Sovereign, and Companions of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India by the Author’.
[A]8 B-M8 G4; inserts after [A]2v B2 D5 F5 F7 G6 H2 H6 I7 K4 K8 L2 M3.
[i-viii] ix-xxii [xxiii-xxvi,1-2] 3-17 [18-20] 21-37 [38-40] 41-60 [61-2] 63-81 [82-4] 85-103 [104-6] 107-31 [132-4] 135-52 [153-4] 155-77 [+1].
Demy 8o: 9⅞" × 7½", trimmed, white wove, no mark, inserts of heavier white wove; 14pt. Baskerville with ligatures; colour photogravures: frontispiece on verso of insert in [A], on rectos of later inserts, before each a caption in Baskerville italic on a protective tissue; casing, buff buckram, gold-blocked on spine ‘THE LIGHT OF ASIA SIR EDWIN ARNOLD ILLUSTD BY HAMZEH CARR [block: equilateral triangle in circle] THE BODLEY HEAD’, and on upper cover, gold-blocked frontal line drawing of face, surrounded by 8 sets of 6-coloured rays (white blue orange pink white brick).
Not in 1963 handlist or Curwen Library; brought to my attention by Douglas Ball, Aberystwyth.
B.L. copy numbered 583; Aberystwyth copy 1719.
21/Sep/1926
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Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 10/Aug/2015