| British Library: | 8408.i.16 |
| Curwen Press: | E15 |
| British Library: | 8408.i.16 |
| Curwen Press: | E15 |
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WILLIAM COBBETT [swelled rule] ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN AND (INCIDENTALLY) TO YOUNG WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AND HIGHER RANKS OF LIFE IN A SERIES OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A Youth A Husband A Bachelor A Father A Lover A Citizen or A Subject WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AFTER GILLRAY Edited with a Preface by EARL E. FISK [Knopf's mark: a greyhound] ALFRED A. KNOPF LONDON * MCMXXX * NEW YORK
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. . . . The illustrations are reproduced by the collotype process, and hand-coloured through stencils by L. Van Leer & Co. Amsterdam. This is No. [space for serial number] of 1000 copies printed, of which 950 are for sale in England and America.
[A]8 B-S8; inserted leaves before [A]2 D1 F1 I1 L1 N1 P1 R1.
None.
Crown 4o: 9¾" × 7¼", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial head- and tail-bands,white wove, Ganymede (Van Gelder Zonen), inserts of white wove, no mark; 14pt. Baskerville; collotype illustrations hand-coloured through stencils; casing, cream or natural buckram, bevelled boards, spine gold-blocked at foot: ‘1930’, gold fillet at head and tail, brown leather label near head, gold-blocked with fillet on every side and 1 fillet across, dividing into 2 compartments, stars at junctions of fillets, in upper compartment: ‘William Cobbett ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN AND TO YOUNG WOMEN’, and in lower compartment: ‘Alfred A. Knopf’; printed dust-jacket.
B.L. copy numbered 79, Curwen 129.
27/Jan/1931
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2017
