1937 Tn

Reproduced in Dreyfus 1981 p.[285] no.15; printed brown on cream stock.The two pennants incorporate the lettering above.

[1]⁸.

[1] 2-15 [+1]; order form loose inside (see below).

9⅛"×5¾" trimmed; Auvergne hand-made; Walbaum with 3-line dropped initial; wrappers, cream card.

Not in Curwen Library.

[Order form], loose inside the Hall Collection copy, printed on blue paper below the heading 'Blake', announces the finding of his original woodblocks, and changed plan resulting, to mould electrotypes from Blake's blocks, and increase the price by 2s/6d.

This item is the Nonesuch Press prospectus 1937-8; see Dreyfus 1981, p.273 prospectus P40. A later variant, P41,also exists,issued Spring 1938, re-titled 'The unusual and the desirable',but has not been located.

?/?/1937

• Blake, William, 1757–1827 NPG ODNB
• Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887–1982 NPG ODNB
• Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975 NPG ODNB
  • founder of Pelican Press, and Nonesuch Press, see Simon 1973 p.168.
• Nonesuch Press
  • founded by Francis Meynell; in 1936 George Macy became Managing Director; see Simon (1956) pp.28-29 for relation with Hobson, Lewis and Morison.
• Walbaum
  • 1836, by J E Walbaum of Goslar, later Weimar; later sold to H. Berthold foundry Berlin; see Simon 1956 p.44, 46, 84, imported 1926 Balston 1951 p.27
  • 1934, Monotype