1932 Oi

Copies examined

Curwen Press: B85

Copies located

British Library: C.68.h.14

Title page

[A]4r

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

Imprint

[A]4v

Limitation

[A]2v

This edition is limited to 350 copies | on hand-made paper numbered 1 to | 350 and 25 specially bound copies | numbered I to XXV.

Collation

[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.

Pagination

[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.

Technical description

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.

Notes

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.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 26/Mar/2023