1927 Jzb ordinary edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: D19

Title page

[A]3r

WALDEN [in red] | OR LIFE IN THE WOODS | By | Henry David Thoreau | With Sixteen Woodcuts | by | Eric Fitch Daglish | [woodcut: a cat] | London | Chapman & Hall Ltd. | 1927

Imprint

[A]3v

Collation

[A]8 B-X8; [A]1 and X8 are pastedowns; inserts after [A]2 C1 D3 F6 H8 I3 L1 M5 P4 R2 R7 S4 T5 T8 U6 X3.

Pagination

[7] vi-vii [viii-xii, 1] 2-68 [69-70] 71-85 [86] 87-95 [96] 97-111 [112] 113-20 [121] 122-33 [134] 135-44 [145] 146-50 [151] 152-74 [175] 176-82 [183] 184-93 [194] 195-206 [207] 208-21[222] 223-234 [235] 236-44 [245] 246-258 [259] 260-76 [277] 278-89 [+3].

Technical description

Medium 8o: 9" × 5¾", top edge only trimmed, artificial headband, white laid, no mark; 12pt. Imprint; colour printing in [A], 16 woodcut illustrations on white wove paper tipped on to inserts, each protected by a tissue leaf which bears the caption; casing, spine black buckram, boards green paper.

Note

Casing described above may be Curwen Library copy only, and lacks illustration after F6; see Jzba.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1927 Jzba special edition

Copies examined

British Library: 012350.ee.33

Title page

As Jzb.

Limitation

L4r

This special edition, printed on English hand-made paper, | with the plates on Japanese vellum, each copy | mumbered and signed by the artist, is limited | to one hundred copies, of which this is | No. [space for serial number]

Collation

As Jzb minus X8; inserts as Jzb, and also conjugate pair tipped on to P2.

Pagination

As Jzb.

Technical description

As Jzb but: top edge gilt, artificial head and tail bands, blue marker ribbon; type and illustrations as Jzb but the woodcuts are on Japanese vellum, pasted down; also an additional woodcut likewise on f2r of insert in P, with caption opposite on f1v, which is not in the list of woodcuts; casing, spine vellum, gold-blocked: ‘WALDEN | H. D. Thoreau | Woodcuts by | E. Fitch Daglish | CHAPMAN & HALL LTD’, boards light blue cloth.

Note

B.L. copy numbered "out of series".

See also