1947 ZEj superior edition

Copies examined

British Library: 8232.e.54
Curwen Press: G21

Title page

[A]2r

THE | [lines 2 and 3 in red] FIRST HUNDRED | YEARS | OF THE | WOOLWICH EQUITABLE | BUILDING SOCIETY | BY | COLLIN BROOKS | LONDON | [short decorative rule] | PRIVATELY PRINTED | 1947

Imprint

[A]2v

Collation

[A]6 B-O8; insert after [A]1, inserted pairs after C2 C6 L2 L6 M2 M6, in centres of sections C D(followed by a pair tipped on) F G, and around section G; 2 throw-out diagrams tipped onto O6r.

Pagination

[13] 2-4 [5] 6-9 [10] 11-2 [14] 15-22 [23] 24-30 [31] 32-51 [52] 53-61 [62] 63-9 [70] 71-87 [88] 89-101 [102] 103-12 [113] 114-21 [122] 123-31 [132] 133-40 [141] 142 [143] 144-8 [149] 150-65 [166] 167-74 [175] 176-81 [182-5] 186-8 [189] 190 [191-4] 195-201 [202-3] 204-8.

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8½" × 5½", trimmed, top edge gilt, artificial headband, white wove, F. J. Head; 12(+1)pt. Bembo; collotype illustrations on inserts in A F G L M and after C2 C6, line blocks in text and on other inserts; casing, blue cloth, spine gold-blocked: ‘[within a scroll] THE | FIRST | HUNDRED | YEARS | by | Collin | Brooks’; printed dust-jacket.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 21/Mar/2017

1947 ZEja ordinary edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: G22

Title page

[A]2r

THE | [lines 2 and 3 in red] FIRST HUNDRED | YEARS | OF THE | WOOLWICH EQUITABLE | BUILDING SOCIETY | BY | COLLIN BROOKS | LONDON | [short decorative rule] | PRIVATELY PRINTED | 1947

Title page

As ZEj

Collation

As ZEj...

Technical description

As ZEj but: white wove, no mark; insert in [A] bears halftone portrait on coloured background; casing brown buckram, spine gold-blocked: ‘[swelled rule] | THE | FIRST | HUNDRED | YEARS | BY | COLLIN | BROOKS | [swelled rule]’; printed dust-jacket.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 21/Mar/2017