1929 Lzd

Printed by MacLehose, Glasgow.

π⁴ A-M⁸.

[8],1-66 [67] 68-189 [+3].

8" × 4 ¾", top edge gilt, white laid, no mark; 12(+6)pt. Garamond; 12 hand-coloured stencilled illustrations in 4 or fewer colours; casing, unbleached canvas, printed overall with red and blue-grey pattern similar to that on head of title-page; blocked down spine: ‘GRAZIELLA’; slipcase.

Shown at the Zwemmer Gallery 1930 (see Mzi).

Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; added on the suggestion of Pat Gilmour and Douglas Ball.

12 illustrations by Jacquier hand-stencilled in colour by Curwen Press (Simon 1973 p.217).

See Dreyfus 1981 cat. 57: on binding cloth, colour stencilling, etc.

Aberystwyth copies are numbered 578, 579.

• Curwen Press. An exhibition of stencilling (1930 : Zwemmer Gallery, Charing Cross Rd, London)
• Garamond
  • 1530, by Claude Garamont (a type-founder for Robert Estienne among others), the first design where the roman and italic belong together; his consistent preferred spelling was 'Garamont', but the 20th-century types wrongly ascribed to him continue to use the 'Garamond' spelling.
  • See Simon 1973 p.169, Moran 1971 p.22
  • 1922, Monotype revived 'Caractères de L'Université', based on designs by Jean Jannon of Sedan which had been wrongly attributed to Garamond.
• Garamond, 12pt.
• Jacquier
• Lamartine, Alphonse de, 1790–1869 IMDb NPG
• Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975 NPG ODNB
  • founder of Pelican Press, and Nonesuch Press, see Simon 1973 p.168.
• Nonesuch Press
  • founded by Francis Meynell; in 1936 George Macy became Managing Director; see Simon (1956) pp.28-29 for relation with Hobson, Lewis and Morison.
• Random House, New York
• Robert MacLehose & Co.