1944 ZBo

Copies examined

British Library:	011604.k.77
Curwen Press:	G8

Title page

[1]₂^r

POEMS | FOR FRANCE | Written by | BRITISH POETS | ON FRANCE SINCE THE WAR | Collected by | NANCY CUNARD | with Autobiographical Notes | of the authors | LONDON | LA FRANCE LIBRE | 1944

Imprint

[1]₂^v

Collation

[A]⁶ [2-7]⁸.

Pagination

[i-iv] v-ix [x] xi [xii] 1-95 [+1].

Technical description

Demy 8^o: 8½" × 5½", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 11(+1)pt. Bembo; card wrappers, with paper wrappers around fixed to card by turn-ins, and printed up spine: ‘LA FRANCE LIBRE [space] POEMS FOR FRANCE’ and on upper wrapper: ‘[within 72pt. border of flowers, including 3 rows of decorative rule in red] Poems | for | France | Written by | British Poets on | France since the War | collected | by | NANCY CUNARD | LA FRANCE LIBRE | LONDON | 1944’.

Note

Contains poems by 70 contributors, related to the Second World War, edited by Nancy Cunard, writer, heiress, and political activist who was associated with many writers in the 1920s and later threw herself into fighting fascism before her death in 1965.

Legal deposit date

15/Dec/1944

See also

Bembo
Bembo, 11pt.
Cunard, Nancy, 1896–1965 NPG ODNB
France libre

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 5/Jul/2012