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| Curwen Press: | G19 |
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| Curwen Press: | G19 |
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[within a border of flowers and rule] THE QUEST FOR CORVO AN EXPERIMENT IN BIOGRAPHY BY A.J.A. SYMONS [circular pattern of flowers] CASSELL & CO. LTD. LONDON, TORONTO, MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY
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[A]8 B-S8 T10.
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Demy 8o: 8½" × 5½", trimmed. top edge red, white laid, no mark; 12pt. Bembo; 3 halftone illustrations; casing, navy-blue buckram, spine blocked with 2 panels in gold with lettering left blank; upper panel: ‘[2 fillets] THE QUEST FOR CORVO A.J.A. SYMONS [2 fillets]’, lower panel: ‘[2 fillets] CASSELL [2 fillets]’; printed dust-jacket.
Frederick William Rolfe adopted the pseudonyms Fr. Rolfe and Baron Corvo; he was never ordained a priest.
One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
Robin Phillips, 1963
