1950 ZHt

[1]⁸.

[6] 5-11 [+3].

7½" × 4¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 12(+1)pt. Baskerville; 1 collotype portrait; wrappers, pale blue paper, attached by turn-ins to a blank outer pair of heavier card; upper wrapper printed: ‘[within a 2-rule border 2¾" × 1¾"] HAROLD | SPEDDING | CURWEN | [bowl of fruit]’.

Not in 1963 handlist or in Curwen Library; drawn to my attention by Douglas Ball.

The first appreciation, signed on p.10, H.S., is probably by Herbert Simon; the second by Sir Francis Meynell states that it is reprinted from The Times.

Harold Curwen, born 16 November 1885, a director of the company from 1908, retired at the end of 1939 for reasons of health, and died 6 May 1949.

• Baskerville
  • 1757, by John Baskerville of Birmingham;
  • 1923, Monotype, under Morison;
  • see Simon 1956, pp.41 42 46, Simon 1973 p.169, Moran 1971 pp. 45 75.
• Baskerville, 12pt.
• Curwen, Harold, 1885–1949
  • see Gilmour (1977) pp.10-24; Barman (1956); retired from active printing 1939.
• Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890–1921 NPG ODNB
  • see Simon (1973) p.152, Gilmour (1977) pp.40-42
• Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975 NPG ODNB
  • founder of Pelican Press, and Nonesuch Press, see Simon 1973 p.168.
• Simon, Herbert
  • see Gilmour (1977) pp.38-39