1938 Ub

Copies examined

British Library: P.P.1931.pdh
Curwen Press: E25

Title page

[A]1r

[within a 57pt. border of flowers] COUNTRY | FAIR | THE COUNTRY LIFE | ANNUAL | for 1938 | [in red, ornament Kzc no.103] | LONDON | COUNTRY LIFE LTD

Imprint

[A]1v

Collation

[A]8 B-E8, inserts: of loaded paper a conjugate pair of leaves before [A]; similar pairs follow B1 B7 C3 C5; unsigned section of 4 leaves follows C, and another of 8 leaves follows E; of white wove inserts a pair around [A], single leaf after B8 D4 E2, and after E3 a leaf fixed to the stub of one following E5; loaded paper inserts less than page size are tipped onto wove leaves: [A]3v B6r C7r D8r E5r.

Pagination

(excluding inserts) [1-2] 3-5 [6] 7-24 [25] 26 [27] 28-62 [63] 64-72 [73] 74-80.

Technical description

Demy 4o: 10⅞" × 8¼", trimmed, white wove, no mark; inserts of white loaded paper and white wove, no mark; 12(+2)pt. Baskerville; halftone illustrations on loaded leaves (those before [A] and after E are adverts); colour halftones on the tipped-on loaded paper plates; lithographs in black and colours on wove inserts; line blocks from engravings, woodcuts, etc. in text; paper wrappers, printed, upper wrapper colour lithograph: ‘[design embodying the words] COUNTRY | FAIR | THE COUNTRY LIFE ANNUAL’, spine and lower wrapper printed over lithographed yellow background black letterpress, down spine: ‘COUNTRY FAIR — THE COUNTRY LIFE ANNUAL’, and across foot: ‘3/6 | Net’; lower wrapper bears advert for Country Life.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 15/Apr/2008