1938 Ue

Copies examined

British Library: 8234.ff.2
Curwen Press: D27

Title page

[1]1r

[line block: four fishmongers preparing a large fish, with these words embodied in the design above them:] HIGH STREET | Written by | J.M.Richards | Illustrated by | Eric Ravilious | [swelled rule] | LONDON: COUNTRY LIFE LTD.

Imprint

[1]1v

Collation

[1]4 [2-4]8, inserts before [1]1, before leaf 5 of sections [2-4], also conjugate pairs of leaves inserted before leaves 2+8, 3+7, 4+6 of [2-4] and around outer pair of leaves of [3].

Pagination

(including inserts)[1-4] 5-8 [9] 10-12 [13-4] 15-16 [17-18] and so on, unpaged insert and paged text-leaf, till [4]3v(=100) [+4].

Technical description

Medium 8o: 9" × 6" trimmed white wove, no mark, inserts of thicker white wove, no mark; 14(+3)pt. Walbaum; colour lithographs on verso of first insert and rectos of all others, line block on t.p.; casing, white paper with all-over lithographed design, on upper cover:[a view of a shop selling meat and poultry with the words ‘HIGH STREET’ above], and ‘J.M.Richards | Eric Ravilious’ below, printed up the spine: ‘J.M.R. HIGH STREET E.R.’, and on lower cover: ‘Country Life | [view of shop full of books and furniture] | Books

Note

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 10/Mar/2008