1930 Mzd limited edition

Copies examined

British Library: C.98.h.36
Curwen Press: K4

Title page

[A]2r

THE WOODCUT | AN ANNUAL | EDITED BY HERBERT FURST | [line] | PUBLISHED BY THE FLEURON LIMITED | 101 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON | No IV 1930

Imprint and limitation

K5r

(75/70).

Collation

[A]4([A]1+1) B-I4; endleaves front and back are 4-leaf blank sewn sections.

Pagination

[8] 1-10 [11] 12-20 [21] 22-4 [25] 26-9 [30-2] 33 [34-8] 39 [40] 41 [42] 43 [44-54] 55 [56-8] 59 [60] 61 [62] 63 [64-70] 71 [+5].

Technical description

Imperial 8o: 11"×7½", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white wove, Curwen Press + unicorn; 14(+3)pt. Baskerville; line block illustrations, frontispiece on insert in [A]; casing, purple buckram, spine gold-blocked: ‘THE | WOOD- | CUT | No.IV’.

Notes

See Simon 1973 p.249: Catalogue raisonné 'also 75 copies, on hand-made paper, full buckram'.

4 issues published, I-IV, 1927-30, see Simon 1956 p.85.

For other issues see Jzc, Kzd, and Ly.

Frontispiece signed in pencil by the artist Eric Ravilious;

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1930 Mzda ordinary edition

Copies examined

British Library: C.98.h.36
Curwen Press: K8

Title page

[A]2r

As Mzd.

Imprint and limitation

K5r

[Unicorn Kzc no.5; 450/250 for sale England / U.S.]

Collation

As Mzd but no insert in [A]; front endleaves 4-leaf blank sewn section..

Technical description

Imperial 8o: 10¾" " × 7⅜", trimmed white wove, P.M.P; type and illustrations as Mzd but without frontispiece; casing, spine black cloth gold-blocked as Mzd; boards patterned paper Kzb no.31; printed dust-jacket.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963