1927 Jk

Copies examined

British Library:
Curwen Press: F72

Title page

[A]2r

FREDERICK BARON CORVO | READ AT | THE FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH | MEETING OF THE SETTE OF ODD VOL- | UMES HELD AT THE ROYAL ADELAIDE | GALLERY ON THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY | OF OCTOBER MCMXXVI | BY | A. J. A. SYMONS | Speculator | TO THE SETTE | IMPRINTED AT | THE CURWEN PRESS, LONDON | MCMXXVI

Colophon

[A]2v

Limitation

[A]1r

(199) with Imprimatur.

Collation

[A]6 B-E4.

Pagination

[7] 4-24 [25-27] 28-40.

Technical description

5¾" × 4½", top edge only trimmed,white wove, no mark; 12pt. Imprint; wrappers, printed in red up spine: ‘BARON CORVO. O.V. LXXXI’, and on upper cover: ‘[within a ruled border] BARON CORVO | By | A. J. A. Symons’.

Notes

See Simon 1973 p.245: Catalogue raisonné states this edition was limited to 109 copies, on English wove mould-made paper. My records give the limitation as 199.

The Royal Adelaide Gallery was a Victorian entertainment house and restaurant near the Strand, London.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963