1945 ZCi

Copies examined

British Library:	7867.bb.8
Curwen Press:	S9

Title page

[A]2^r

THE FRENCH DRAWINGS | IN THE COLLECTION OF | HIS MAJESTY THE KING | AT WINDSOR CASTLE | BY | ANTHONY BLUNT | SURVEYOR OF THE KING'S PICTURES | 1945 | OXFORD & LONDON | PHAIDON PRESS LTD

Imprint

[A]2^v

Collation

[A]⁸ C-L⁸ M⁴, see note.

Pagination

[1-5] 6-12 [13-5] 16-63 [64] 65-81 [82-165] 166 [+2].

Note

[A]3 is signed B, as if [A]1-2, 7-8 and [A]3-6 were planned as two separate 4-leaf sections, and then B was inserted in the centre of [A].

Technical description

Demy 4^o: 11½" × 8¾", trimmed, top edge yellow, white loaded paper; 12(+6)pt. Baskerville; halftone illustrations; casing, red buckram, gold-blocked on spine: ‘[within a double-fillet border] FRENCH | DRAWINGS | AT | WINDSOR | CASTLE | ANTHONY | BLUNT | [block: Phaidon Press mark] | PHAIDON’ and on upper cover: ‘THE FRENCH DRAWINGS | AT WINDSOR CASTLE’; printed dust-jacket.

Note

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.

Legal deposit date

17/Apr/1946

See also

Baskerville
Baskerville, 12pt.
Blunt, Anthony, 1907–1983 NPG ODNB
George VI, King of the United Kingdom, 1895–1952 Hansard Munzinger NPG ODNB
J. Curwen & Sons, London. Centenary Exhibition (1963 : Bloomsbury)
Phaidon Press

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 10/Mar/2008