| Curwen Press: | B85 |
| Curwen Press: | B85 |
| British Library: | C.68.h.14 |
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THE LAND OF THE NEW ADVENTURE (The Georgian Era in Nova Scotia) BY WILLIAM INGLIS MORSE D. Litt. Member of Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants; of New England Historical Genealogical Society; of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and of the Nova Scotia Historical Society Photographs by the Author LONDON BERNARD QUARITCH LTD 11 Grafton Street 1932
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This edition is limited to 350 copies on hand-made paper numbered 1 to 350 and 25 specially bound copies numbered I to XXV.
[A]10 B-L8 [1-11]8 [12]4; inserts before C6 E2 F7, folded insert before [A]4; [1-12] are single leaves made up into sections by linen guards; 4-leaf sewn endleaves front and back.
[13] xii-xiv [xv] xvi [xvii] xviii [1] 2-52 [53] 54-91 [92] 93-133 [134-5] 136-46 [147] 148-53 [154-5] 156-8 [+186] ; i.e. sections [1-12] are unpaged.
Demy 8o: 8½" × 5½", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white wove, F J Head Hand-Made; [1-12] are white wove, unicorn; 12pt. Caslon; collotype illustrations on inserts and [1-12]; casing, green buckram gold-blocked on spine: ‘William Inglis Morse + THE LAND of THE NEW ADVENTURE + Quaritch’, buckram pocket inside lower cover contains map 16" × 24", collotype.
See Simon 1973 p.253, reprinting Catalogue raisonné 1928-32: Demy 8o, 325 copies, £2 15s net. 25 copies full leather, £15 15s. net.
Curwen Works note: quantity 350, date 23/May/1932.
In sections [1-12] it was not possible to examine the whole watermark.
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 26/Mar/2023