1949 ZGe

Copies examined

British Library: 7809.s.9
Curwen Press: S12

Title page

[1]2r

LEO VAN PUYVELDE | [swelled rule] | THE GENIUS OF FLEMISH ART | A LECTURE GIVEN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | ON 27 NOVEMBER 1943 | THE PHAIDON PRESS | LONDON | 1949

Imprint

[1]2v

Half title

[1]4r

Collation

[1-4]4.

Pagination

[1-4] 5-6 [7] 8 [9] 10 [11] 12 [13] 14 [15] 16 [17] 18 [19] 20 [21] 22 [23] 24 [25] 26 [27-8] 29 [30 +2].

Technical description

Medium 4o: 12" × 9", trimmed, heavy white wove, no mark; 16(+2)pt. Baskerville; halftones; card wrappers, but the endleaves front and back are not pasted down onto the card, only tipped on; around card wrapper is a cover of flecked paper, mostly grey, turned in on all sides to enclose the card and the outer endleaf; cover printed up spine: ‘PHAIDON PRESS [space] LEO VAN PUYVELDE : THE GENIUS OF FLEMISH ART’, and on upper wrapper, set in Jan van Krimpen's titling: ‘[within ruled border, lines 1-5 in red] THE | GENIUS | OF | FLEMISH | ART | BY LEO VAN PUYVELDE | PHAIDON PRESS’.

Notes

B.L. copy has been bound.

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

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2017