1937 Ta Ordinary edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: B7

Title page

[A]4r

THE BURIED | CANDELABRUM | BY STEFAN ZWEIG | TRANSLATED BY EDEN AND CEDAR PAUL | [line block in green: a spade by a tree] | WOODCUTS BY MARGARETE HAMMERSCHLAG | [triple rule] | CASSELL & CO. LTD. LA BELLE SAUVAGE, LONDON

Imprint

[A]4v

Limitation

[A]2v

One thousand copies of The Buried Candelabrum | have been printed for sale, nine hundred and | ninety on Dickinson's cylinder-wove paper, | numbered 1 - 990, and ten copies on English | hand-made paper, bound in full leather and | signed by the author and artist, numbered A - J. | THIS IS NUMBER: [space for serial number]

Collation

[A]4 B-K8.

Pagination

[8] 1-118 [119] 120-2 [+6].

Technical description

Crown 4o: 9¾" × 7¼", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 14(+3½)pt. Walbaum; woodcut illustrations in green; casing in patterned paper Kzb no.25; no copy traced in publisher's casing as issued.

Notes

Ordinary edition not in B.L.; compare 1944 edition published by Oxford with 105 pages, at 012557.a.20.

(Maurice) Eden Paul, was the younger son of the publisher Charles Kegan Paul; Cedar Paul was his second wife.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1937 Taa Special edition

Copies examined

British Library: 12554.n.10

Title page, imprint and date

As Ta.

Limitation

[A]2v

As Ta.

Collation and pagination

As Ta.

Technical description

As Ta but trimmed and gilt all edges, head- and tail-bands, white wove, F J Head hand-made; full binding in black morocco on 5 cords, no bands, tooled on spine: ‘[5 fillets, 3 gold 2 blind] ZWEIG | · | THE | BURIED | CANDEL- | ABRUM | [5 fillets as above]’, and on upper cover: ‘[5 blind fillets down left side, and in gold 5 fillets continued from the lower set on the spine, 2 lines of lettering tooled between these fillets, 3" from fore-edge] STEFAN ZWEIG | THE BURIED CANDELABRUM’.

Note

See quote from Desmond Flower in (Simon 1973 p.210).

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963