1947 ZEy

Copies examined

British Library:	N.N.37088
Curwen Press:	F14

Title page

[A]2^r

CYRIL CONNOLLY | [in red] THE ROCK POOL | [decorative rule] | A dolor! ibat Hylas, ibat Hamadryasin | [block: H. Hamilton's mark] | [swelled rule] | LONDON: HAMISH HAMILTON

Imprint

[A]2^v

Collation

[A]⁸ B-M⁸.

Pagination

[i-iv] v-xii [xiii-xiv] 1-178.

Technical description

Crown 8^o: 7¼" × 4½", trimmed. top edge red,white wove, no mark; 11(+2)pt. Baskerville; casing, grey cloth gold-blocked on spine: ‘[decoration and fillet] | THE | ROCK | POOL | by | Cyril | Connolly | [fillet and decoration] | [2 fillets] | HAMISH | HAMILTON’, and in red 2 panels as background to the first 6 lines of blocking, and 1 fillet near the foot between the 2 gold fillets; printed dust-jacket.

Notes

The only novel (satirical) by Cyril Connolly.

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

Legal deposit date

8/May/1947

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jun/2011