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[16] 1-32 [33-4] 35-72 [73-4] 75-104 [+4].

Crown 4^o: 9⅞" × 7½", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white wove, no mark; 14(+1)pt. Walbaum hand set; casing, black paper, spine gold-blocked: ‘JACK | LINDSAY | MARINO | FALIERO’, upper cover gold-blocked: ‘[within a border of a double rule and a single] JACK LINDSAY | MARINO FALIERO | FANFROLICO PRESS’

Marino Faliero was the 55th Doge of Venice, executed 17th April 1355; his short reign has interested Donizetti (opera), Delacroix (painting), Byron (tragedy) and others.

See Simon 1973 p.245: Catalogue raisonné states this edition was of 450 copies on English wove mould-made paper.

Curwen copy was not numbered or signed.

• Faliero, Marino, 1274–1355
• Fanfrolico Press, London
• Lindsay, Jack, 1900–1990 ODNB see also Meadows, Peter, 1900–1990 (pseudonym)
• Walbaum
• Walbaum, 14pt.