1944 ZBp

Copies examined

British Library: 12208.a.4/15
Curwen Press: F43

Title page (including series)

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[within an 18pt. border of flowers] SEASHORE LIFE | AND | PATTERN | By | T. A. STEPHENSON | Professor of Zoology at the University of Wales | The KING PENGUIN Books | LONDON AND NEW YORK | 1944

Imprint

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. . | Text Pages printed at | THE CURWEN PRESS, PLAISTOW | Colour Plates | Made and printed by | JOHN SWAIN AND SONS LTD. | Cover design by | T. A. STEPHENSON | . . .

Series

King Penguin book

Collation

[1-3]8.

Pagination

[4] 1-28, 1-16.

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7" × 4⅝", trimmed, white wove, no mark, sections [1-2] are of thinner white wove than [3]; 10(+1)pt. Baskerville; line blocks in text; colour lithograph illustrations throughout [3]; casing, patterned paper printed in colour with a design based on seashore plants and animals, incorporating wording, up spine: ‘SEASHORE LIFE’, at foot of spine: ‘[Penguin mark] | K | 15’, and on upper cover: ‘[within panel 1" × 2⅜" outlined by orange rule] SEASHORE LIFE | AND PATTERN | T. A. Stephenson’.

Note

King Penguin serial no. K15.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963