1954 ZDba

Copies examined

Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: 252

Title page

[A]2r

BOOKBINDING | J. S. Hewitt-Bates, F.S.A.M. | THE DRYAD PRESS | LEICESTER

Imprint

[A]2v

Sixth Edition 1954 | ...

Collation

[A]6 B-I8; inserts after [A]1 B4 I1 I4.

Pagination

[i-ix] x [xi-xii,1] 2-8 [8p plates] 9-10 [11] 12-16 [17] 18-20 [21] 22-7 [28] 29-32 [33] 34-7 [38] 39-46 [47] 48-51 [52] 53-7 [58] 59-60 [61] 62-8 [69] 70-4 [75] 76-84 [85] 86-94 [95] 96-105 [106] 107-8 [109] 110-18 [119] 120-2 [123] 124-7 [+1].

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8½" × 5¼", trimmed, white wove, no mark, inserts of white loaded paper; 12pt. Bembo; line blocks in text and halftones on inserts; casing, red cloth printed in gilt down spine: ‘BOOKBINDING Hewitt-Bates DRYAD PRESS’, and on upper cover: ‘BOOKBINDING | J. S. HEWITT-BATES

Notes

This edition not in 1963 handlist; early editions have longer title; see ZDb; 4th edition only in Curwen library

Written and contributed by Douglas Ball, Aberystwyth

See also

Douglas Ball, 1st/Jan/1977