| British Library: | 010856.cc.27 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | R.B.R. Z239.2.N812 |
| British Library: | 010856.cc.27 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | R.B.R. Z239.2.N812 |
| Durham University Library: | Hall 0053 |
π2v
[illustration hand-coloured red green yellow through stencils] PETER PORCUPLINE'S ENLISTMENT A cartoon by Gillray satirising Cobbett's 'Life and Adventures'
[A]2r
LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE WITH OTHER RECORDS OF HIS EARLY CAREER IN ENGLAND & AMERICA VIZ: [next 4 lines set in 2 columns, left:] LIFE & ADVENTURES THE SCARECROW REMARKS of the PAMPHLETS [right column:] TALLEYRAND: A SPY FAREWELL TO AMERICA A COURT-MARTIAL A RETROSPECT [remainder of t.p. set centred] BY WILLIAM COBBETT [swelled rule] LONDON : THE NONESUCH PRESS MCMXXVII
Printed by T. and A. Constable (University Press) Edinburgh; frontispiece stencilled by Curwen.
L2v, p.[164]
Of this edition 1800 copies have been printed for sale in England and America by T. & A. Constable Ltd., the University Press, Edinburgh, during May 1927, in Baskerville type upon Arches paper for the Nonesuch Press. The frontispiece, after the cartoon by Gillray, is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, London. This is Number [space for serial number]
π4 A-K8 L4.
[9] 2-8 [9-10] 11-16 [17] 18-63 [64-6] 67-89 [90-2] 93-143 [144] 145-163 [164 +4]; where normal page-numbers are prevented by chapter-starts etc. smaller page-numbers appear.
8⅞" × 5⅜", white laid, Arches all edges untrimmed; ??6pt. Baskerville; hand-coloured stencilled frontispiece done by Curwen Press; see Simon 1973, p.217; casing, spine black buckram, gold-blocked: ‘PETER PORCU- PINE * COBBETT’, boards combed marbled paper.
Peter Porcupine was a nom-de-plume adopted by William Cobbett in 1796.
G. D. H. Cole's authorship of the Introduction (pp.1-8) and notes (pp.151-163) is shown on A1r, Contents (π4r) and p.8.
Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; added at the suggestion of Pat Gilmour and Douglas Ball.
Shown at the Zwemmer Gallery 1930 (see Mzi).
See Dreyfus 1981 cat. 41 who says 650 copies were for Random House, New York, and confirms Cole wrote the Introduction and Notes.
B.L. copy un-numbered; Aberystwyth copy 130, bears personal bookplate on front pastedown, and note of purchase at Hatchards, 1937.
5/Aug/1927
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Robin Phillips, 2012, revised 7/Mar/2024