1946 ZDh

Copies examined

British Library: W61/7134 DSC
Curwen Press: F75

Title page

[A]2r

HINTS | ON | ETIQUETTE | AND | THE USAGES OF SOCIETY | WITH | [1 line in Gothic type] A Glance at Bad Habits | By | Ἀγωγός | Illustrated by Brian Robb | TURNSTILE PRESS LIMITED | 10 GREAT TURNSTILE | LONDON,W.C.1 | 1946

Imprint

[A]2v

Collation

[A]6 C-F8; inserted conjugate pairs around C & E.

Pagination

[9] 2-68.

Technical description

5½" × 3¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark, inserts of whiter wove paper, no mark; 10didot Walbaum (15½pt. setting); illustrations in black and several colours on inserts; casing, paper printed on both covers with pictorial design, with title down spine: ‘HINTS ON ETIQUETTE’ and price across foot: ‘[5s]’ incorporated in upper cover design: ‘HINTS | ON | ETIQUETTE | AND THE | USAGES OF SOCIETY | WITH A GLANCE AT | [final line in blackletter] Bad Habits’.

Notes

It appears that the author was Charles William Day; his nom-de-plume, transliterated: Agōgos, meaning a leading-rein or lead, appears in Greek script in line 9 of the t.p.

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

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963