1945 ZCf

Copies examined

British Library:	X18/8209 DSC
Curwen Press:	F45

Title page

[A]2^r

Imprint

[A]2^v

... | DISTRIBUTED IN THE U.S.A. BY THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | ... | AND ISSUED IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES BY | GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD | ... | SECOND EDITION: REVISED | ... | PRINTED IN 1945 AT THE CURWEN PRESS · PLAISTOW · E.13

Half title

[A]1^r

... | TRANSLATED BY | S.G.C. MIDDLEMORE

Collation

[A]¹⁶ B-L¹⁶ M⁸ O-P¹⁶ Q-R⁸ N¹².

Pagination

[i-ix] x-xi [xii-xiii] xiv-xxiii [xxiv,1] 2-80 [81] 82-103 [104] 105-70 [171] 172-216 [217] 218-60 [261] 262-341 [342-4] 345-375 [376] 377-440 [441] 442-53 [454-5] 456-62 [+2].

Technical description

Crown 8^o: 7¼" × 4¼", trimmed, top edge yellow,white wove, no mark; [O-R] are white loaded paper; 10(+1)pt. Bembo; halftone illustrations on loaded leaves; casing, red cloth, blocked on spine with black and gold fillets, and black panel 1¾" × ¾", with lettering in gold: ‘THE | CIVILIZATION | OF THE | RENAISSANCE | IN | ITALY’ and at foot: ‘PHAIDON’, and on upper cover a black panel 1¾" × 2", with lettering in gold: ‘THE | CIVILIZATION | OF THE | RENAISSANCE | IN | ITALY’; printed dust-jacket.

Notes

Middlemore's translation was first published 1878.

Note the longer form of title which appears on the casing and dust-jacket; B.L. Catalogue records copies dated 1944 and 1945 with the shorter form of title, as above.