1933 Pb

Copies examined

Curwen Press:

C42

Copies located

British Library:

7942,t,12

Title page

f3^r

[within decorative border] OLIVER SIMON AND HAMISH MILES | A | CONVERSATION | PIECE | Privately Printed

Imprint, limitation and date

f8^v

36 copies printed at The Curwen | Press, Plaistow, for the friends of | Desmond Flower, Hamish Miles | and Oliver Simon, February 1933

Collation

[1]¹⁰; f1 and f10 are pastedowns.

Pagination

[7] 6-13 [+5].

Technical description

Crown 8^o: 7½" × 5", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 11(+1)pt. Bembo; line block decorations; ff1 and 10 made onto thin card boards; outer wrapper of buff laid paper, upper cover printed: ‘A CONVERSATION PIECE’.

Notes

Hamish Miles joins Desmond McCarthy as co-editor of Life and Letters March 1933, see Kl9/48. The guests at this gathering thrown by the directors of the re-constituted Curwen Press (Harold Curwen, Oliver Simon and Herbert [Bobbie] Simon) were few but included a future chairman of Cassell (publishers) and an art historian who would become Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. The title reflects a Noël Coward musical.

Curwen Press was now (2/Mar/1933) separate from J. Curwen & Sons (music publishers).