1944 ZBg

Copies examined

British Library: W.34/2020 DSC
Curwen Press: G33

Title page (including series)

[A]2r

NEW EXCURSIONS INTO ENGLISH POETRY | EDITORS: W.J. TURNER AND SHEILA SHANNON | ENGLISH SCOTTISH | AND WELSH | LANDSCAPE | 1700—c.1860 | CHOSEN BY JOHN BETJEMAN | AND GEOFFREY TAYLOR | WITH | ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS | By | JOHN PIPER | LONDON | FREDERICK MULLER LTD | 29 Great James Street | W C 1

Imprint

[A]2v

... | PRODUCED BY ADPRINT LIMITED

Series

[A]2r

New excursions into English poetry

Collation

[A]8 B-H8, inserted conjugate pairs of leaves after [A]3+5 E2+6, G2+6 and around sections B D and F;.

Pagination

[i-iv] v-vi, 1-121 [+1].

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8¼" × 5½", trimmed, white wove, no mark ; 10(+2)pt. Baskerville; lithographs in black grey and yellow on inserted leaves; casing, cloth with lithograph print overall in black, white, yellow and 2 greys, lettering on 2" grey band at head and ¾" at foot, identical on upper and lower covers: ‘ENGLISH SCOTTISH & WELSH | LANDSCAPE | Verse chosen by | JOHN BETJEMAN and GEOFFREY TAYLOR’ then on band at foot: ‘Lithographs by JOHN PIPER’, and on spine, upwards: ‘ENGLISH [sic!!] LANDSCAPE’,and across foot: ‘Frederick | Muller’; printed dust-jacket.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963