1949 ZGg

Copies examined

Curwen Press: G25

Title page

[1]2r

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE | [short decorative rule] | [in red] INTIMATE JOURNALS | TRANSLATED BY | CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD | INTRODUCTION BY | W. H. AUDEN | WITH SIX COLLOTYPE PLATES AND | ONE LINE DRAWING | LONDON | [rule] | METHUEN & CO. LTD | 1949

Imprint

[1]2v

Collation

[1-12]4; inserts after [1]1 [4]4 [6]4 [8]4 [10]4 [11]4.

Pagination

[i-iv] v [vi] vii-xi [xii] xiii-xiv [1-2] 3-68 [69] 70-1 [+1].

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8½" × 5¼", trimmed, top edge gilt, white wove, Basingwerk Parchment, inserts white wove no mark; 11(+1)pt. Baskerville; collotype illustrations on inserts, line blocks in text; casing, blue buckram, gold-blocked on spine: ‘[pen flourish] | Intimate | Journals | of | Charles | Baudelaire | [pen flourish] | METHUEN’; printed dust-jacket.

Notes

Title in French was 'Journaux intimes'.

Originally published 1930 by Blackamore Press, with Introduction by T. S. Eliot.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963