| British Library: | 010920.cc.20 |
| Curwen Press: | G14 |
| British Library: | 010920.cc.20 |
| Curwen Press: | G14 |
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JOHNSON AND QUEENEY LETTERS FROM DR. JOHNSON TO QUEENEY THRALE FROM THE BOWOOD PAPERS Edited with an Introduction by THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE LONDON : CASSELL & CO. LTD. NEW YORK : RANDOM HOUSE 1932
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(250 / 250, England / America)
[A]8 B-E8 F10; inserts before [A]3 [A]8 B1 B2 B3 C5 C6 D2 D7E3 F1 F6.
[i-x] xi-xxxiv [xxv-xxvi, 1-2] 3-55 [56-8] 59-64.
Demy 8o: 9¾" × 5½", trimmed, top edge gilt, white wove, Curwen Press + Unicorn, inserts of smoother white wove also with Unicorn mark; 12(+2)pt. Bembo; collotype illustrations on inserts; casing, marbled cloth, red leather spine label gold-blocked: ‘[decoration] JOHNSON & QUEENEY * LANSDOWNE [decoration]’.
See Simon 1973 p.252: Catalogue raisonné mentions only Cassell edition, leather back, cloth sides, 500 copies.
B.L. copy numbered 489; Curwen copy has marbled paper casing, no label.
Mrs Hester Thrale's daughter Hester Maria was nicknamed Queeney.
Robin Phillips, 1963
