1937 Tj

Copies examined

Curwen Press: G12
National Trust: Wightwick Manor

Copies located

British Library: 12298.ee.20

Title page

[A]4r

[within a decorative border of rules and flowers] SPEECHES | ARTICLES AND | LETTERS | OF | ISRAEL ZANGWILL | Selected and Edited | by | MAURICE SIMON | With a Foreword | by | EDITH AYRTON ZANGWILL | LONDON | THE SONCINO PRESS | 5 Gower Street | 1937

Imprint

[A]4v

Series

[A]2v

THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK ISSUED | IN CONNECTION WITH THE | SONCINO JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY

Collation

[A]8 B-Z8 2A4.

Pagination

[11] viii [ix] x-xii [1-3] 4-27 [28] 29-41 [42] 43-6 [47] 48-53 [54] 55-63 [64] 65-70 [71] 72-4 [75] 76-81 [82] 83-97 [98] 99-101 [102] 103-5 [106] 107-12 [113] 114-9 [120] 121-2 [123] 124-6 [127] 128-30 [131] 132-47 [148-51] 152-66 [167] 168-80 [181] 182-97 [198] 199-227 [228-31] 232-3 [234] 235-61 [262] 263-82 [283] 284-91 [292] 293-308 [309] 310-28 [329-31] 332-8 [339] 340-2 [343] 344-7 [348] 349-57 [+3].

Technical description

Medium 8o: 9¼" × 5¾", trimmed, white laid, no mark; 12(+1)pt. Bembo; casing, maroon buckram, spine gold-blocked: ‘Speeches | Articles and | Letters of | ISRAEL | ZANGWILL | Selected | and Edited by | Maurice Simon | [block: mark of Soncino Press]’; printed dust-jacket.

Note

Israel Zangwill (d.1926) was author of the play 'The melting pot'; Edith Ayrton Zangwill was his wife.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963