1950 ZHj

Copies examined

British Library: 00606.bb.8
Curwen Press: D21

Title page

[A]2r

A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF | [in red] RHODESIAN VERSE | CHOSEN BY | JOHN SNELLING | WITH A FOREWORD BY | SIR HERBERT J. STANLEY | G.C.M.G. | OXFORD | B.H.BLACKWELL LIMITED | 1950

Imprint

[A]2v

THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THIS ANTHOLOGY WAS | FIRST PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER 1938 | UNDER THE TITLE OF | Rhodesian Verse, 1888–1938 | SECOND EDITION, REVISED, APRIL 1939 | Fifty years of Rhodesian Verse

Collation

[A]8 B-G8 [H]4.

Pagination

[i-xii] xiii-xv [xvi] 1-84 [85-6] 87-104.

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8½" × 5½", trimmed, white wove, Basingwerk Parchment ; 12(+2)pt. Bembo; casing, yellow ochre cloth, blocked with 3" brown panel up spine, and gold-blocking over: ‘RHODESIAN VERSE | CHOSEN BY JOHN SNELLING’, gold-blocked decorations at each end of panel; printed dust-jacket.

Note

Rhodesia has been known as Zimbabwe since 1980; Northern Rhodesia became Zambia in 1964.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jun/2011