1927 Ja

Copies examined

Curwen Press: D42

Copies located

British Library: 012511.bb.5/8

Title page

[A]3r

[within a border of flowers, alternate blue and grey] | ALL THE BETTER | FOR HER! | AND OTHER STORIES | Translated from the French | of | CLAUDE-HENRI DE FUSÉE DE VOISENON | (de l'Académie Française) | by | H.B.V. | With an Introduction by | RALPH STRAUS | LONDON | CHAPMAN & HALL LTD | 1927

Imprint

[A]3v

Series

Listed in Jf [A]2r as no. VIII in series Eighteenth-century French romances edited by Vyvyan B. Holland; a listing of I-VII appears on [A]1r of this volume.

Limitation

[A]1v

(1,000)

Collation

[A]8 B-L8 M4.

Pagination

[i-ix] x-xiv [xv-xvi, 1-3] 4-5 [6] 7-10 [11] 12-13 [14] 15-6 [17] 18-19 [20] 21-3 [24] 25-6 [27] 28-9 [30] 31-3 [34] 35-8 [39] 40-3 [44] 45-7 [48] 49-51 [52] 53-5 [56] 57-60 [61] 62-4 [65] 66-9 [70-3] 74 [75] 76-91 [92] 93-114 [115-7] 118-165 [+3].

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8¾" × 5⅝", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial red and gold headband, white laid, Ellerslie; 12(+2)pt. Imprint; blue and grey borders on [A]3r, B2r, F5r, I3r; casing, spine buff cloth, gold-blocked: ‘ALL THE | BETTER | FOR HER! | AND | OTHER | STORIES | * | VOISENON | CHAPMAN | & HALL’, boards white laid paper, pattern Kzb no.13 with blue pink and black pattern; dust-jacket of same paper with pen-and-ink label over spine and printed label over upper cover.

Notes

H. B. V. stands for Vyvyan B. Holland, general editor of this series.

French title was Tant mieux pour elle.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963