1949 ZGj

Copies examined

British Library: DSC L61/2709
Curwen Press: F40

Title page

[1]2r

LIFE IN AN | ENGLISH VILLAGE | [decorative rule] | Sixteen Lithographs | by Edward Bawden | with an Introductory Essay | by Noel Carrington | [decorative rule] | PENGUIN BOOKS | 1949

Imprint

[1]2v

TEXT PAGES AND COLOUR LITHOGRAPHS PRINTED | AT THE CURWEN PRESS, PLAISTOW | COVER DESIGNED BY EDWARD BAWDEN | . . .

Series

[1]2v

THE KING PENGUIN BOOKS | . . .

Collation

[1-2]8 [3-4]4.

Pagination

[1-5] 6-8 [9] 10-2 [13] 14-6 [17] 18-20 [21] 22-4 [25] 26-8 [29] 30 [+18].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7" × 4⅝", trimmed, white wove, no mark, sections [3-4] similar; 10didot Walbaum (12pt. setting); line block illustrations in text, colour lithographs in [3-4]; casing, in patterned printed paper incorporating lettering up spine: ‘Life in an English Village’, and in panel on upper cover: ‘LIFE IN AN | ENGLISH VILLAGE | [rule] | A King Penguin Book’.

Notes

King Penguin no.K51.

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

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963