| Nottingham University Library KMC: | PN2020.R4 |
| Nottingham University Library KMC: | PN2020.R4 |
| National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum): | Spec. Coll. 95.CC.47 |
| British Library: | D.S.C. W93/1351 |
| Bodleian Library, Oxford: | Johnson e.3298 |
| Bodleian Library, Oxford: | Johnson e.3886 |
[A]2r, p.iii
Comedy and Tragedy, Helen Thorp
[A]2v
The Strollers, Ursula Birstingl [illustration hand-coloured yellow pink green blue through stencils, tipped on]
[A]3r
[within a 3-line border] REVIEW OF REVUES & OTHER MATTERS Edited by [2-line decorative logo] CB [a cockerel running] MCMXXX JONATHAN CAPE BEDFORD SQUARE LONDON
[A]3v
[A]8 B-H8; insert after p.52.
[1] 2-4 [5] 6-8 [9-10] 11-14 [15] 16-17 [18-19] 20-43 [44-6] 47-8 [40] 50-2 [53-4] 55 [57-8] 59-61 [62] 63-6 [67] 68-71 [72] 73-4 [75-6] 77 [78-9] 80-1 [82-3] 84-5 [86-9] 90-1 [92] 93-4 [+24].
8" × 5⅛", trimmed, edges coloured orange, white wove, Basingwerk parchment; insert of bank paper, mark not identified; 12pt. Lutetia with decorative 4-line dropped initials to chapters; also 2-line dropped initials to sub-sections; text of contributions in 'Critics' Dreams' are set in Blado; frontispiece (see above) tipped onto [A]2v; decorative head- and tailpieces to some chapters; woodcuts pp.9, 44-5; scraperboard pp.18, 82; halftone p.88; illustration on p.18 and frontispiece are printed on undersized pages tipped on at head; frontispiece and pp.78-9, 95-118 hand-coloured through stencils; casing, spine orange cloth, gold-blocked up: ‘Review of Revues: C.B.C.’ and across foot: ‘CAPE’, boards green paper, endleaves cream paper printed all over with orange decorative pattern, front cover label 1⅜" × 3⅜" printed orange: ‘[within 3-line border] REVIEW OF REVUES Edited by C. B. C.’; lacks dust-jacket.
The editor of this volume was C. B. Cochran, an impresario who produced Conversation piece among other Noël Coward musicals. Here a large cast of contributors performs using a wide variety of printing techniques, probably in aid of Curwen's research for Qf.
Paul Nash of the P.H.S. kindly identified the Blado typeface.
[A]4r
| LITERARY CONTENTS} | |
| Contributions by Ashley Dukes, Constance Collier, Sidney Dark, 'John Protheroe' | 1-17 |
| Critics' dreams (set in Blado) | 19-43 |
| Contributions by Charles Morgan, W.A. Darlington, St.John Ervine, Joseph Thorp, Ivor Brown, W.J. Turner, James Agate | 19-45 |
| Contributions by Netta Syrett, Ronald Jeans, Edward Carrick, Ernst Stern, Theodore Komisarjevsky, H.F. Rubinstein, Robert Speaight, Quex, Geoffrey Whitworth, Junius | 46-94 |
| THE DECORATIONS | |
| Artwork by Althea Willoughby, William Nicholson, Véra Willoughby, Tom-Titt, J.H. Dowd, Ceri Richards, Fougasse | [A]5r |
| Cartoons by Oliver Messel | 86-8 |
| Artwork by Denis Tegetmeier, Edward Bawden, Claudia Guercio, Edward Carrick | 89-94 |
| A calendar for theatre-goers, by Edward Bawden | [95-118] |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| By way of introduction, C.B.C. | [A]6 |
Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; added at suggestion of Douglas Ball and Pat Gilmour Ac1;
Cochran's logo on t.p. is signed CE at bottom right, which could stand for Edward Carrick.
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Robin Phillips, 2017, revised 27/Jul/2024