1942 Yc

Copies examined

British Library: 11484.e.10
Curwen Press: F21

Title page

[A]2r

ARAGON | LE CRÈVE-COEUR | PRÉFACES D'ANDRÉ LABARTHE | ET DE CYRIL CONNOLLY | LONDRES | ÉDITION HORIZON — LA FRANCE LIBRE | 1942

Imprint

[A]2v

Collation

[A]8 B-D8 E2; E tipped on, not sewn.

Pagination

[i-iv] v-xiii [xiv] 1-52 [+2].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7¼" × 4½", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 10didot Walbaum (11+1pt. setting); card wrappers, with paper wrapper around fixed to card by turn-ins; wrapper printed up spine: ‘Horizon—La France Libre    ARAGON — LE CRÈVE-COEUR’ and on upper wrapper: ‘[within a 6-rule border a panel 6" × 3½" is printed red, with lettering over in black] ARAGON | [swelled rule] | LE | CRÈVE-COEUR | ÉDITION | HORIZON — LA FRANCE LIBRE’.

Notes

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

See ZBd and ZAh; it seems likely that sheets of Yc were stapled up with sheets of ZAh to make ZBd.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963