1937 Td

Copies examined

British Library: C.103.g.1
Curwen Press: J30

Title page

[a]4r

PUSHKIN | [swelled rule] | EVGENY ONEGIN | TRANSLATED BY OLIVER ELTON | AND | ILLUSTRATED BY M. V. DOBUJINSKY | WITH A FOREWORD BY | DESMOND MacCARTHY | LONDON | THE PUSHKIN PRESS | [swelled rule] | MCMXXXVII

Imprint and limitation

[a]2v

This Centenary Edition of Pushkin's | Evgeny Onegin set in Monotype Wal- | baum type, was set up and printed | at the Curwen Press, Plaistow. The | edition is limited to 775 copies, of | which 750 copies are numbered and | for sale. | This copy is number _____

Collation

[a]8 b8 c2 B-Q8 [R]8; 4-leaf sewn endleaves at back.

Pagination

[10] ix-xxix [xxx-xxxii] xxxiii [xxxiv,1-2] 3-22 [23] 24-35 [36-8] 39-54 [55] 56-62 [63-6] 67-92 [93] 94 [95-6] 97-9 [100] 101-22 [123-4] 125-36 [137] 138-49 [150-2] 153-67 [168] 169-77 [178-80] 181-90 [191] 192-210 [211-2] 213-37 [238] 239-42 [243-4] 245-9 [250] 251-5 [+1].

Technical description

Large Imperial 8o: 11¼" × 7¼", top and fore-edge trimmed, top edge gilt, artificial headband, white wove, no mark; 14(+3)pt. Walbaum; line block illustrations, that on [a]3v having blue fawn and yellow colouring on black; casing, spine red leather, gold-blocked: ‘EVGENY | ONEGIN | PUSHKIN | PRESS’, boards in patterned paper, with label 1¾" × 3¼" impressed into upper cover, printed ‘[within double-rule border] PUSHKIN | [swelled rule] | EVGENY ONEGIN’,

Note

B.L. copy numbered 197.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963