| British Library: | C.102.k.1/5 |
| Curwen Press: | E9 |
| British Library: | C.102.k.1/5 |
| Curwen Press: | E9 |
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POISONOUS PLANTS DEADLY, DANGEROUS AND SUSPECT ENGRAVED ON WOOD AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN NASH WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS BY W. DALLIMORE EDITED BY DR. A. W. HILL, F.R.S. FREDERICK ETCHELLS & HUGH MACDONALD 1A KENSINGTON PLACE, LONDON MCMXXVII
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THE HASLEWOOD BOOKS
M4v
OF THIS EDITION PRINTED IN ENGLAND, ON RENKER'S INGRES PAPER, AT THE CURWEN PRESS, 350 NUMBERED COPIES HAVE BEEN ISSUED THIS IS NUMBER
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[i-viii] ix-xii, [1-2] 3-85 (rectos only printed) [+3].
Large Imperial 8o, 11⅛" × 7 ½", uncut, artificial headband white wove, no mark, Renker's Ingres paper; 14(+7)pt. Walbaum hand set founder's type; wood engravings; casing, spine light green buckram, gold-blocked down: ‘POISONOUS PLANTS’, boards light pink-brown cloth, upper cover gold-blocked with the design of a plant.
Curwen works note (375) dated 14/Jun/1927; British Library copy not numbered.
One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
See Simon, 1956 p.84 for comments on type and paper in this book (the first for which Curwen damped handmade paper) also on wood engraving Simon, 1956 p. 84 and note, Curwen, 1934 pp.[1]-10 and Simon 1973 p.245.
4/Jul/1927
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Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 11/Dec/2007