1930 Mza

Copies examined

British Library:	YD.2006.a.2212
Curwen Press:	C54

Title page

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THEME AND VARIATIONS | BY | JAMES STEPHENS | [engraving, plate 2½" × 2¼" in brown, vignette Kzc no.99] | New York : | THE FOUNTAIN PRESS | 1930

Imprint and limitation

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OF THIS FIRST EDITION OF 'Theme | and Variations', eight hundred and ninety-two | copies have been printed on Barcham Green's | hand-made paper at The Curwen Press. | Eight hundred and fifty numbered copies, | signed by the author, are for sale. Distributed | in America by Random House, and in Great | Britain by Grant | Richards and Humphrey | Toulmin at The Cayme Press, Limited. | This is copy number [space for serial number]

Collation

[A]⁴ B-D⁴ E⁶.

Pagination

[12] 3 [4-6] 7-8 [9-10] 11-28 [29-30] 31 [+3].

Technical description

Narrow Crown 8^o: 7½" × 4¾", top edge only trimmed, white wove, Curwen Press + unicorn; 14pt. Lutetia; casing, green cloth gold-blocked up spine: ‘THEME AND VARIATIONS’, and on upper cover: ‘THEME | AND VARIATIONS | [vignette Kzc no.106] | JAMES STEPHENS’

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963