1936 Si

Copies examined

British Library: 7028.s.19
Curwen Press: D14

Title page

[A]2r

[within a border of rules and printers' flowers] OLD | GARDEN | ROSES | BY EDWARD A. BUNYARD | 'Oh! No man knows | Through what wild centuries | Roves back the Rose.' | Walter de la Mare | LONDON | COUNTRY LIFE LTD. | NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS | 1936

Imprint

[A]2v

Collation

[A]4 ([A]1+1, [A]4 + χ2) [B-L]8 (inserts follow C3 4 6 8, D1 2, E1 3 4 5 7 8, F1 4 5 6 8, G4 6 7 8, I3 7, K2, L1 and 2) M2; M and the 2-leaf insert after [A] are tipped in, not sewn.

Pagination

[i-viii] ix-xii, [1-2] 3-60 [61-2] 63-155 [156] 157-63 [+1], excluding inserts, but including pair of inserts after [A].

Technical description

Crown 4o: 9¾" × 7¼", trimmed, top edge red, white wove, no mark, insert after [A]1 white loaded paper, other inserts thicker white wove, no mark; 14(+3)pt. Walbaum; ; colour halftone on insert in [A], photogravures on other inserts; halftone endleaves; casing, red cloth, gold-blocked on spine: ‘OLD | GARDEN | ROSES | [block: a rose] | EDWARD | BUNYARD | [then at foot] COUNTRY | LIFE’, and on upper cover: ‘OLD GARDEN ROSES’; printed dust-jacket.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 5/Feb/2008