1928 Kn

Copies examined

British Library: 11909.v.15
British Library: 2719.xx.330
British Library: q705 *356* DSC
Curwen Press: K32

Title page

[1]2r

MODERN | BOOK | PRODUCTION | THE STUDIO LTD | 44 Leicester Square, London, W. C. 2 | 1928

Imprint

[1]1v

Collation

[1-3]8 [4-8]12, single-leaf inserts before [4]3,6,8,10, [5]1,3,6,8,10, [6]7, [7]3,6, [8]4.

Pagination

(inserts included) [i-iv] v-viii [1] 2-44 [45-6] 47-52 [53-4] 55-8 [59-60] 61-4 [65-6] 67-72 [73-4] 75-8 [79-80] 81-6 [87-8] 89-92 [93-4] 95-8 [99-100] 101-18 [119-20] 121-36 [137-8] 139-44 [145-6] 147-66 [167-8] 169-86.

Technical description

Royal 4o: 11½" × 9", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white wove, Basingwerk parchment; in [4-5] and [7-8] leaves 3, 6, 7, 10 are of loaded paper, and in [6] leaves 1,2,4,5,8,9,11,12; the inserts are of various other papers; 14pt. Caslon; line and halftone illustrations, printing in black and 1 colour (brown, red, orange, green), printing examples in various colours inserted; casing, spine art vellum printed in anchovy red: ‘MODERN | BOOK | PRO- | DUCTION | THE STUDIO’, boards white laid paper printed with block pattern in anchovy, upper cover has an integral label, white blank printed in anchovy: ‘MODERN BOOK | PRODUCTION | [block, device of The Studio]’; printed dust-jacket

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963