1936 Sq

Copies examined

Bodleian Library, Oxford: 1731.c.53
Private copy: Paul W. Nash

Copies located

British Library: Cup.510.bda.7

Title page

[1]6r, p.[ix]r

Adventures In | Architecture | [by Louis Golding]

Imprint

None.

Colophon and limitation

p.[29]

Forty copies of this book have been | printed for the Corvinus Press and | completed during December 1936. The | paper used is hand-made by J.B.Green | and Son, and all copies are numbered | and signed by the author | [numbered in ink] | [signed 'Louis Golding'].

Collation

[1-6]4.

Pagination

[10] 1-27 [1,+10] including paste-downs front and back.

Technical description

11½"×9" top edge only trimmed and gilt, others untrimmed, blue and white silk headband, hand-made laid Boswell by J. B. Green, tinted green/blue, chain-lines horizontal, 16 didot Walbaum (on 18pt.); bound by Leighton-Straker, sewn on 3 tapes, quarter bound, spine grey/brown buckram lettered up: ‘Adventures in Architecture     by     Louis Golding’, boards natural buckram, printed with a grey and black pattern, single gold fillet up front cover, back cover gold fillet as on front; dust-jacket.

Notes

This essay was the source for a B.B.C. radio talk by Golding broadcast 27/Feb/1956.

Golding's authorship is asserted only on the spine binding and by his signature on p.[29].

Composition and printing were done by Curwen Press, as shown by their ledgers.

Bodleian copy is numbered 27.

See Paul W. Nash. and Ridler 9.

With thanks for the assistance of Paul W. Nash.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 2021, revised 20/Oct/2021