1927 Js

Copies examined

British Library: MUSIC W.89/6761
Curwen Press: M14

Title page

[1]3r

PURCELL | THREE, FOUR AND FIVE PART | FANTASIAS | FOR STRINGS | (CURWEN EDITION 90806) | * | TRANSCRIBED BY | PETER WARLOCK | EDITED BY | ANDRÉ MANGEOT | 1927 | LONDON: J. CURWEN & SONS LIMITED | 24 Berners Street, W.1 | PHILADELPHIA: CURWEN INCORPORATED | 1701 Chestnut Street

Imprint

[1]3v

Limitation

[1]1v

This edition is limited to 165 copies, | of which 15 are unnumbered | and reserved from sale. | This is No. [space for serial number]

Collation

[1-4]8; insert before [1]3 and conjugate pair before [2]1.

Pagination

[i-vi] vii-xi [xii] xiii [xiv] xv [xvi-xx, 1] 2-7 [8] 9-11 [12] and so on every 4th page un-numbered to 45-7 [+1].

Technical description

Imperial 4o: 13½" × 10", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband,white laid, P M Fabriano Perugia; 14(+3)pt. Caslon; 3 collotype facsimiles; music reproduced by offset lithography; casing, yellow buckram, upper cover gold-blocked: ‘PURCELL | STRING FANTASIAS | CURWEN’; printed dust-jacket.

Notes

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.

Curwen copy examined was un-numbered.

Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963