| National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum): | 801.AE.0029 |
| National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum): | 801.AE.0029 |
[1]2r, p.iii
[lines 1 and 2 in open titling] GREEN MANSIONS A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST by W. H. HUDSON Introduction by JOHN GALSWORTHY Illustrated by E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER [at foot, left-justified] THE MODERN LIBRARY NEW YORK [at right a running figure, logo of the series] [heavy horizontal rule]
Not a Curwen printing; included for Kauffer's illustrations.
COPYRIGHT 1916, AND RENEWED 1944. BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. COPYRIGHT, 1944, BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC. [rule] THE MODERN LIBRARY is published by RANDOM HOUSE, INC. ... Manufactured ... H. Wolff
[1-16]16.
[i-iv] v-x, [+2] [7] 8-22 [23] 24-33 [34] 35-43 [44] 45-50 [51] 62 [63] 64-74 [75] 76-83 [84] 85-99 [100] 101-08 [109] 110-20 [121] 122-34 [135] 136-47 [148] 149-158 160--4 [165] 166-77 [178] 179--85 [186] 187-99 [200] 201--08 [209] 210-21 [222] 223-35 [236] 237-48 [249]250-254 [+2 of publisher's adverts, +4].
7¼"×4¾", white wove no mark, 10pt. Times; decorative italic initials upstanding on first lines of chapters, with half-page black line illustrations (pagination suppressed) on pp.7, 23, 34, 44, 51, 63, 75, 84, 100, 109, 121, 135, 148, 159, 165, 178, 186, 200, 209, 222, 236, 249; decorative endleaves front and back incorporating 'ml' for series; casing, maroon cloth, spine gold-blocked, at head the series logo, at foot: ‘MODERN LIBRARY’, and down the middle part: ‘GREEN MANSIONS W. H. Hudson’, front cover blind-stamped: ‘[hexagon enclosing the series logo] MODERN LIBRARY’; dust-jacket.
Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; added from Flower (1956) p.38-40.
Introduction written by Galsworthy, September 1915, Manaton, Devon. see p.x.
The black line illustrations correspond to those printed green in ZBza.
Robin Phillips, 2017, revised 29/Sep/2017
