[a]⁸ b⁸ C-Q⁸; inserts after E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 F5 G5 H3 H5 I5 I8 K2 K3 N2 P5, folded inserts after G3 H4 L7 Q5, the 1st and 3rd protected by a tissue leaf following, the 4th by one preceding; 4-leaf sewn endleaves.

[i-ix] x [xi] xii [xiii] xiv-xix [xx-xxi] xxii-xxx [xxxi-xxxii,1] 2-52 [53-5] 56-69 [70-2] 73-83 [84-91] 92-124 [125] 126 [127-8] 129-31 [132-5] 136-42 [143] 144-55 [156] 157-60 [161-5] 166-99 [200-3] 204-22 [+2].

Demy 8^o: 8½" × 5½", trimmed, top edge gilt, artificial head- and tail-bands, white wove, HANDMADE; 12(+1½)pt. Caslon; collotype illustrations on inserts, line block illustrations on text pages; casing, green buckram gold-blocked on spine: ‘MORSE | Acadiensia | Nova | I | Quaritch’; printed dust-jacket.

Acadia was a former French colony in East Canada, which in 1763 fell to the British,

Curwen library copies were ordinary edition; B.L. copies are special leatherbound edition.

Works note on dust-jacket of Curwen copy gives quantity: 500, date 20/Sep/1935; compared with the Limitation notice this implies more than 100 copies spare!

See Oi and note on Na, also Ua and Vg.

9/Jul/1936

• Bernard Quaritch, London
• Caslon
• Caslon, 12pt.
• Morse, William Inglis, b. 1874

As Rb1.

As Rb1.

As Rb1 but: binding, blue morocco on 5 cords, head- and tail-bands, squares of boards tooled, fillets, pecked lines, panels: top blank; 2nd panel: ‘ACADIEN- | SIA NOVA | — | WILLIAM | INGLIS | MORSE’; 3rd panel: ‘I’; 3rd-5th panels blank; foot ‘1935’; cover gold-tooled in red and green, 2 panels, inner: ‘ACADIENSIA | NOVA | 1598-1779 | NEW AND UNPUBLISHED | DOCUMENTS AND OTHER | DATA RELATING | TO ACADIA | NOVA SCOTIA | NEW BRUNSWICK MAINE ETC. | THE ACTORS | SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER | JACQUES DE MEULLES GARGAS | VINCENT DE SACCARDY | MARQUIS DE LA ROCHE | DELABAT AND | J.F.W. DES BARRES | COLLECTED AND EDITED BY | WILLIAM INGLIS | MORSE, D.LITT.’.

9/Jul/1936

As Rb1.

As Rb1 but lacks last line.

[A]⁸ B-K⁸; inserts after [A]6 C3 C4 D3 E7 E8 H3 I2 L4 [1-4] M⁸; 4-leaf sewn endleaves.

[i-vii] viii [ix] x [xi-xii,1] 2-14 [15-7] 18-39 [40-3] 44-63 [64-7] 68-98 [99] 100-1 [102-5] 106-17 [118-21] 122-4 [125-7] 128-34 [135] 136-7 [138-9] 140 [141] 142-4 [145-7] 148 [149] 150-2 [153] 154 [155-9] 160-70 [+2]; inserts and sections [1-4] are excluded from this pagination.

Format, paper, type, illustrations and casing as Rb1; between sections L and M come 9 folded maps; they are thumb-indexed down the right edges with tags of white buckram printed A, B, B1, C, D, E, F, G, H; A is sewn with L, the remainder are made up into sections in pairs; for example [1] is 2 guards, providing 4 stubs; B and B1 are tipped onto the 1st and 3rd of these stubs; casing, green buckram gold-blocked as Rb1 but volume number II; printed dust-jacket.

Works note in Curwen copy identical to that in Rb1.

9/Jul/1936

• Bernard Quaritch, London
• Morse, William Inglis, b. 1874

As Rb2.

As Rb2.

As Rb2 but: binding, blue morocco on 5 cords, head- and tail-bands, squares of boards tooled, fillets, pecked lines, panels, top blank, 2nd panel: ‘ACADIEN- | SIA NOVA | — | WILLIAM | INGLIS | MORSE’, 3rd panel: ‘II’, 3rd-5th panels blank, foot ‘1935’, cover gold-tooled in red and green, 2 panels, inner: ‘ACADIENSIA | NOVA | 1598-1779 | NEW AND UNPUBLISHED | DOCUMENTS AND OTHER | DATA RELATING | TO ACADIA | NOVA SCOTIA | NEW BRUNSWICK MAINE ETC. | THE ACTORS | SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER | JACQUES DE MEULLES GARGAS | VINCENT DE SACCARDY | MARQUIS DE LA ROCHE | DELABAT AND | J.F.W. DES BARRES | COLLECTED AND EDITIED BY | WILLIAM INGLIS | MORSE, D.LITT.’.

9/Jul/1936