1938 Uc

Copies examined

Curwen Press: D25

Title page

[1]2r

The Early Life of | Richard Duke of Gloucester | 1452 – 1475 | Reprinted from THE FORESTER | Nottingham 1870–1871 | Written in 1870 by William Harrison Woodward | London: | Privately Printed at the Curwen Press | 1938

Collation

[1-4]4.

Pagination

[8] 1-20 [+4].

Technical description

Foolscap 4o: 8 ½" × 6 ½", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 12(+2)pt. Bembo; casing, spine navy blue cloth, boards grey laid paper, upper cover printed in dark blue, panel 2" × 3¼ 2", with decorative border, within: ‘WILLIAM HARRISON WOODWARD | [swelled rule] | The Early Life of | Richard Duke of Gloucester’; tissue wrapper

Note

Duke Richard was later Richard III King of England; The Forester was evidently a Nottingham periodical; Woodward seems to have been precise in revising his work for printing.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963,