1935 Rj

Copies examined

British Library: 20100.aa.1
Curwen Press: D1

Title page

[1]2r

MR. TOOTLEOO AND CO. | [lithograph in black yellow blue and red: an elephant, a tiger, a turtle and a sailor] | BY BERNARD AND ELINOR DARWIN | LONDON: FABER & FABER LTD., 24 RUSSELL SQUARE

Imprint

[1]2v

Collation

[1-6]4.

Pagination

None.

Technical description

Crown 4o: 7¼" × 9⅜", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 18(+3)pt. Bembo; lithograph illustrations in black red yellow and blue, on rectos; casing, white paper printed with design of turtle elephant and tiger dancing, with sailor riding elephant, with wording in red: ‘MR. TOOTLEOO AND CO. | BY BERNARD AND ELINOR DARWIN | LONDON: FABER & FABER LTD., 24 RUSSELL SQUARE’, design in same colours as above; dust-jacket printed like casing.

Note

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury; see Dreyfus 1981 cat.27 for Nonesuch Press publishing the first of the series.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963