| British Library: | L.R.40.c.2 |
| Curwen Press: | M22 |
| Private copy: | Robin Phillips |
| British Library: | L.R.40.c.2 |
| Curwen Press: | M22 |
| Private copy: | Robin Phillips |
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[within a border of flowers] OLIVER SIMON AND JULIUS RODENBERG PRINTING OF TO-DAY An Illustrated Survey of Post-war Typography in Europe and the United States. With a General Introduction by ALDOUS HUXLEY LONDON: PETER DAVIES LIMITED 30 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden NEW YORK: HARPER AND BROTHERS 49 East 33rd Street [short swelled rule] 1928
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but see Colophon and Technical description below for other printers who contributed.
[a]4r, p.xi
| List of Illustrations and Type-faces, | xi |
| Introduction, by Aldous Huxley, | 1 |
| Printing in England, by Oliver Simon, | 9 |
| Printing in The United States, by Paul Beaujon, | 51 |
| Continental Printing, by Julius Rodenberg | 73 |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors and publisher desire to thank all printers and publishers for permission to reproduce pages in this book, and in particular the following for composing and providing pages of type: England: The Beaumont Press, The Cambridge University Press, Jonathan Cape, Chatto & Windus, The Curwen Press, The Fleuron Ltd., The Golden Cockerel Press, Alfred A. Knopf, The Kynoch Press, The Oxford University Press, Martin Secker, The Shakespeare Head Press, The Westminster Press, and Wishart & Co. The United States: The Harvard University Press, The Pynson Printers, and D. B. Updike, The Merry- mount Press. The Continent: Wilh. Adam, H. Berthold, Bauersche Giesserei, Enschedé en Zonen, Genzsch & Heyse, Otto von Holten, Gebr. Klingspor, Arthur Novák, Christoph Reisser's Sohne, D. Stempel, and in particular to Carl Ernst Poeschel and Method Kalab for printing and supplying a section of eight pages each.
[a]6r: List of illustrations and typefaces [a]6r-b4r, (pp.xi-xix), listing plates 1-122 with details of printers and typefaces.
[a]6 b4 C-Y4.
[i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xix [xx] 1-5 [6-8] 9-15 [16-50] 51-3 [54-72] 73-83 [+77].
Elephant 4o: 13¼" × 9½", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 14(+3)pt. Imprint with 4-line dropped initials; line block decorations and printing examples in many colours; casing, spine brown buckram gold-blocked: ‘PRINTING OF TO-DAY’, boards in white laid paper with red block pattern; In the ordinary edition casing other colours were also used. For example (copy held by Robin Phillips) spine white buckram, boards with blue block-patterned paper, spine gold-blocked, rules in blue, type in gold: ‘double-rule double-rule PRINTING OF TO-DAY double-rule double-rule SIMON AND RODENBERG double-rule double-rule 1928 double-rule’. Section Q was printed by Poeschel and Trepte, Leipzig, section T by Method Kalab, Prague; original printers in T acknowledged: The Government Printing Office, T1r, T4v; Industrial Printing Establishment, Prague, T1v, T2-3, T4r.
One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
Curwen works note states: ordinary edition 4,000 copies, de luxe edition, 300 copies.
Erratum slip tipped onto b1r: ERRATUM: Page xiii, No. 33, for 'Telford' read 'Treyford'
Paul Beaujon was the nom-de-plume of Mrs Beatrice Warde.
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Robin Phillips, 1963
| British Library: | L.R.40.c.2 |
| Curwen Press: | M22 |
| Private copy: | Frances Wakeman Books |
As Kv.
AsKv but:[a]8 ([a]4+1) b4 C-Y4 [Z]2; pastedown and free endleaf are conjoint, no sewing visible in [Z].
as Kv but [+77 + 4], the additional 4 un-numbered pages forming section [Z].
As Kv but: casing, boards white buckram, bevelled, spine gold-blocked, rules in blue, type in gold: ‘[double-rule] [double-rule] PRINTING OF TO-DAY [double-rule] [double-rule] SIMON AND RODENBERG [double-rule] [double-rule] 1928 [double-rule]’.
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Of this Special Edition of PRINTING OF TO-DAY there have been printed on hand-made paper three hundred copies This is No.[space for serial number]
Inserted leaf after b4 (= p.xix) has below the number and title of plate 122 (the last plate listed) an additional entry reading: ‘In addition to the above illustrations there is an inset following the title-page showing a chapter opening from [small caps] NANA, by Emile Zola, with an original etching by Chas. Laborde. To be published in the Autumn of 1928 by Éditions H. Jonquières, Paris. Printed at Les Presses de Coulouma, Argenteuil, Paris.’; the additional illustration is on the insert after [a]3.
De luxe copy examined at Frances Wakeman Books, Carlton, Nottingham on 29/Aug/2003 had number "20." inserted by hand.
According to a prospectus found loose in Wakeman's copy the intended publication date for PRINTING OF TO-DAY was 24th May 1928.
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