1934 Qi

Copies examined

British Library: W.P.5363
Curwen Press: E29

Title page

[1]4r

READING | INTO THE PICTURE | BY | EDWARD JAMES | [collotype: a head] | ILLUSTRATED BY | JORG v. REPPERT-BISMARCK | DUCKWORTH : 1934 | LONDON

Imprint

None

Colophon and limitation

[9]4r

COLOPHON | This edition is limited to ninety copies | of which only seventy-five are for sale | These are numbered and signed by the | author. | This copy is number [space for serial number]

Collation

[1-9]4; rear endleaves are a blank 4-leaf sewn section.

Pagination

[8] v-ix [x-xii] xiii-xxix [xxx,1-2] 3-11 [12] 13-36 [+2].

Technical description

Demy 4o: 11" × 8⅜", trimmed, artificial head- and tail-bands,white wove, Ganymede; 14(+3)pt. Bembo, on [4]1v [7]1v and [9]3 part of text is printed in green; collotypes in slate grey; casing, buckram, vertical stripes in various colours, upper cover from fore-edge: dark green 5½", brick red 1", royal blue 1¾", lower cover from fore-edge: brown 5", brick red 1", dark green 2½" + spine + ½" on upper cover; gold blocking on cover up spine: ‘* READING INTO THE PICTURE BY EDWARD JAMES *’ and on upper cover, up the righthand edge of the blue buckram strip: ‘* READING INTO THE PICTURE PART I AND PART II *

Note

Only the blocking on upper cover mentions parts I and II of the book.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963