1940 Wi

Copies examined

British Library: C.103.c.15
Curwen Press: R27

Title page

[a]2r

Wuthering | Heights | By Emily Bronte | [short double rule] | WITH LITHOGRAPHS BY | Barnett Freedman | [short double rule] | LONDON | PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS | FOR THE HERITAGE PRESS | OF NEW YORK

Note

Y6v

Production note

Collation

[a]8 b8 B-X8 Y6; inserts after B2 C5 D2 D5 E1 E6 F7 G7 I1 L5 M2 M8 N8 Q5 T6 Y4.

Pagination

[i-v] vi-xv [xvi-xvii] xviii-xxiv [xxv] xxvi-xxx [xxxi-xxxii,1-3] 4-331 [+1]; 4-leaf sewn endleaves front and back.

Technical description

Medium 8o: 9" × 5½", trimmed, artificial head- and tail-bands white wove, no mark; 12pt. Baskerville; colour lithograph illustrations on inserts and endleaves; casing, spine + 2½" of boards, red cloth, gold-blocked down spine: ‘Wuthering Heights · Emily Bronte’, and 3 fillets down the boards near edge of red cloth; remainder of both boards covered with pale cloth bearing lithographed designs, on lower board Emily Bronte, on upper board a man and a woman, presumably Catherine and Heathcliff; slip-case covered in black glazed paper.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963