1948 ZFe

Copies examined

British Library: 8288.g.54
Curwen Press: RG20
; printed dust-jacket.

Title page

[A]2r

THE | LONDON SOCIETY | OF | COMPOSITORS | (RE-ESTABLISHED 1848) | [decorative swelled rule] | A CENTENARY HISTORY | BY | ELLIC HOWE | AND | HAROLD E. WAITE | WITH A FOREWORD | BY | SIR FRANCIS MEYNELL | R.D.I., F.S.I.A. | CASSELL & COMPANY | LIMITED | LONDON · TORONTO · SYDNEY | AND MELBOURNE

Imprint

[A]2v

Collation

[A]8 B-Z8 2A4.

Pagination

[i-v] vi-vii [viii-ix] x [xi] xii-xvi [1] 2-42 [43] 44-64 [65-6] 67-83 [84] 85-115 [116] 117-21 [122-3] 124-45 [146-7] 148-60 [161] 162-70 [171] 172-82 [183] 184-8 [189] 190-208 [209] 210-24 [225] 226-35 [236] 237-41 [242-3] 244-53 [254] 255-71 [272] 273-84 [285] 286-315 [316] 317-20 [321] 322-36 [337] 338-40 [341-4] 345-6 [347] 348 [349] 350-59 [+1].

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8½" × 5 ½", trimmed, top edge red, white wove, Basingwerk Parchment; 12 didot Walbaum (13pt. body); casing, dark red buckram, 2½" black leather label on spine, gold-blocked: ‘[double rule and row of flowers] | A Centenary History | [2 flowers] | THE LONDON | SOCIETY | OF | COMPOSITORS | [2 flowers] | Ellic Howe | Harold E. Waite | [row of flowers and double rule] | [then at foot of spine, on buckram, 2 flowers] | CASSELL

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 11/Sep/200?