1950 ZHe

Copies examined

British Library: 12208.a.4/53
Curwen Press: F39

Title page

[A]2r

[within a double-rule border] FLOWERS | OF THE MEADOW | [dash] | By Geoffrey Grigson | With twenty-four plates | by Robin Tanner | [dash] | PENGUIN BOOKS | HARMONDSWORTH · MIDDLESEX

Imprint

[A]2v

TEXT PAGES PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS, PLAISTOW | COLOUR PLATES MADE AND PRINTED | BY JOHN SWAIN AND SONS, LTD., BARNET, HERTS | COVER DESIGNED BY ROBIN TANNER | MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN

Series

[A]2v

THE KING PENGUIN BOOKS | . . .

Collation

[A]4 B-C4 D6 [E-G]4.

Pagination

[1-4] 5-34 [+26].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7" × 4¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark (smooth), [E-G] are of white wove, no mark (rough); 11(+2)pt. Ehrhardt; colour halftones in [E-G]; casing, paper printed with coloured pattern of flowers, incorporating 1¾" label on spine with lettering up: ‘Flowers of the Meadow’, and on upper cover: ‘[within border of 2 rules and asterisks] FLOWERS | OF THE MEADOW | [rule] | A King Penguin Book’; printed dust-jacket.

Note

King Penguin serial no. K53.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963