1948 ZFl

Copies examined

British Library: W.P.7617/70
Private copy: Robin Phillips

Title page (including series)

outside front cover

[colour lithograph design incorporating wording:] PRINTING | by Harold Curwen | illustrated by Jack Brough | [as part of mirrored type-setting] A PUFFIN PICTURE BOOK

Imprint

inside front cover

PUFFIN PICTURE BOOKS | PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS LTD . HARMONDSWORTH . MIDDLESEX | EDITED BY NOEL CARRINGTON | [series listing of 4, 7, 10-11, -85] FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1948

Collation

[1]16, including wrappers.

Pagination

[1-2] 3-31 [32]; numbers are in [ ].

Technical description

Oblong Crown 4o: 7512" × 8¾", trimmed; paperback, stapled, white wove, no mark; 13pt. Caslon; lithograph illustrations throughout in black and in colour; paperback, covers trimmed flush, design on front as above, outside back cover gives title and series details set in Walbaum.

Notes

Not in 1963 handlist or Curwen Library.

Puffin serial no. PP70.

Information from a web-site suggests original title was 'What is printing?' and front cover graphic seems to confirm this; see Webb & Skipwith (2009) p.94.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 30/Jul/2014