1932 On

[A]¹⁰ [B]⁸ C-I⁸ K¹⁰; inserts before B4, C2 C6, D1 D4 D6 E2 E7 after E8, before F4 G1 H1 H7 I3.

[i-xv] xvi-xx [1-3] 4-5 [6-7] 8-14 [15] 16-23 [24] 25-36 [37] 38-44 [45] 46-53 [54-7] 58-9 [60-1] 62-9 [70] 71-8 [79] 80-99 [100] 101-14 [115] 116-22 [123-5] 126 [127] 128-37 [138-41] 142-6 [+2].

Royal 4^o: 12" × 8¾", trimmed and gilt all edges. white wove, Curwen Press + unicorn; 18pt. Bembo; some large headings are set in Bruce Rogers's Centaur; all inserts and many text pages have collotypes with hand-coloured stencilling; binding in vellum, spine gold-blocked: ‘URNE | BURIALL | & THE | GARDEN | OF | CYRUS | [fillet] | SIR | THOMAS | BROWNE | [fillet] | CASSELL’, upper and lower covers decorated with brown leather inlay and gold blocking; on upper cover at top right is a panel 9½" × 6¼" in brown leather, with a rhomboid geometrical pattern in gold including the outline of an urn 2 portions of which are in vellum; the same design is blocked on the vellum of the lower cover, but there the corresponding portions are in brown leather.

See Balston (1951) p.32 'specially attractive features: title-page, half-titles and some large headings ... set in Bruce Rogers' Centaur'; for stencil method see Simon (1956) p.86 note, and Simon (1973) p.211-217, also p.253 reprinting Catalogue raisonné 1928-32, describes this edition: vellum back, leather sides, 215 copies, £15 15s.

Herbert Simon (Simon 1973 pp.209-210) has kept for us a long direct quotation from Desmond Flower recounting the impact on him of this project.

Nash began the illustrations for Urne Buriall in the spring of 1931 ... He undertook to make 50 finished drawings, although in fact only 32 were made. The binding also was designed by him; Herbert Read in 1952 described the book as 'one of the loveliest achievements of contemporary English art'; see Simpson (2010) pp.10-12.

B.L. copy numbered 211; Scottish Nat. Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, copy numbered 183.

• Bembo
  • 1495, by Francesco Griffo of Bologna, for Aldus Manutius's De Aetna of Cardinal Bembo;
  • 1929, Monotype
  • See Simon 1956 pp.41-2,Moran 1971 pp.139-41 154.
• Bembo, 18pt.
• Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682 NPG ODNB
• Carter, John, 1905–1975 NPG ODNB
• Cassell and Company, London
  • Desmond Flower, partner from 1930, later Chairman, was a friend of Oliver Simon. see Simon 1973 pp.208-10.
• Centaur
  • 1914 by Bruce Rogers based on 1470 Jenson; cut by Robert Wiebking of Chicago; italic by Frederick Warde based on Arrighi 1524;
  • 1929 Monotype. See Moran 1971 pp.109-113.
• Charles Whittingham and Griggs, London see also Chiswick Press, London (later heading)
• Curwen, Harold, 1885–1949
  • see Gilmour (1977) pp.10-24; Barman (1956); retired from active printing 1939.
• Nash, Paul, 1889–1946 NPG ODNB
  • see Simon (1973) pp.215-6, Gilmour (1977) pp.45-53 and Twemlow (2009) pp.32-34
• Rogers, Bruce, 1870–1957 NPG