| Curwen Press: | M11 |
| Curwen Press: | M11 |
| British Library: | 12349.w.3 |
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PECKOVER THE ABBOTSCOURT PAPERS 1904 – 1931 Edited by C. R. Ashbee Illustrated by Reginald Savage Printed at The Curwen Press and published by the Astolat Press, Publishers at 101 Great Russell Street, London 1932
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This Edition is limited to 350 copies. of which 150 copies are for sale in England by the Astolat Press and 135 copies for sale in America by The Wakefield Book Shop, 509 Madison Avenue, New York. This is number [space for serial number]
[A]6 B-R8 S6; sewn 4-leaf endleaves front and back.
[i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] xi [xii, 1-2] 3-9 [10-2] 13-23 [24-6] 27-39 [40-2] 43-62 [63-4] 65-70 [71-2] 73-103 [104-6] 107-19 [120-2] 123-38 [139-40] 141-52 [153-4] 155-71 [172-4] 175-87 [188-90] 191-9 [200-2] 203-46 [247-8] 249-68.
Foolscap 2o: 12" × 8⅜", trimmed, top edge only gilt, artificial head- and tail-bands, white wove, no mark; 12pt. Baskerville; hand-coloured stencilled line block illustrations :black, mauve, green, brown, yellow and red; casing, spine art vellum gold-blocked: ‘PECKOVER C. R. ASHBEE *’, boards patterned paper Kzb no.26.
My 1963 handlist omitted to mention that the stencil method is used in this book Simon (1956) p.86 note; see Simon (1973) pp.211-217, and Jackson (1935) p.23; see Simon 1973 p.253, reprinting Catalogue raisonné 1928-32: Royal 4o vellum back, paper boards, 350 copies, £3 3s. The Curwen copy examined was un-numbered.
Peckover is an imaginary English village, unrelated to the Quaker Peckover family and their home at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire; Ashbee is fictionalising Chipping Camden as a vehicle for an account of English village history through the ages.
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Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 20/Apr/2015