1937 Te

Copies examined

British Library: 010093.e.
Curwen Press: A38
30

Title page

[a]2r

PATRICK M. SYNGE | [swelled rule] | MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON | AN EXPEDITION TO | THE EQUATORIAL MOUNTAINS | OF AFRICA | LONDON | LINDSAY DRUMMOND LTD. | Buckingham House, Buckingham Street | 1937

Imprint

[a]3r

Collation

[a]8 b4 B-P8; inserts follow [a]1 b3 B6 C2,3,5,6,7,8 D1,2,3,5,7,8 E8 F1,2,6,8 G3,8 H1,3,8 I2,5,6,8 K8 L5,7,8 M8, folded map insert after P1.

Pagination

(excluding inserts) [i-vi] vii-xi [xii] xiii-xxiv [1-2] 3-210 [211-2] 213-21 [+3].

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8⅞" × 5⅝", trimmed, top edge green, white wove, no mark; inserts in [a] and b are of brown laid, F J Head Hand-made; 12didot Walbaum(13pt. setting); colour halftones tipped onto brown laid inserts; line block maps; sepia collotypes on wove inserts; casing, green cloth, gold-blocked on spine: ‘MOUNTAINS | OF THE | MOON | PATRICK | M. SYNGE | LINDSAY | DRUMMOND’; printed dust-jacket.

Note

Report of 1934-35 British Museum expedition to Ruwenzori East Africa on the Congo/Uganda border.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963