1951 ZIe

Copies examined

British Library: 7867.dd.23
Curwen Press: S14

Title page

[1]2r

KENNETH CLARK | [in red] PIERO | DELLA | [in red] FRANCESCA | WITH 219 ILLUSTRATIONS | LONDON | [double rule] | PHAIDON PRESS LIMITED

Imprint

[1]2v

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN, 1951 | TEXT PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS, PLAISTOW, E. 13 | COLOUR PLATES PRINTED BY HENRY STONE AND SON LTD, BANBURY | MONOCHROME PLATES PRINTED BY CLARKE AND SHERWELL LTD, NORTHAMPTON

Collation

[1]8 [2-6]4 [7]6 [8-16]8 [17]2[18]8 [19]4; inserted conjugate pairs around [2] [4] and [6]; plates tipped on to recto of every insert and to [1]1v.

Pagination

[12] 1-21 [22-3] 24-55 [56-202] 203-4 [+16] 205-12; section [18] is omitted from this paging.

Technical description

Medium 4o: 11⅞" × 9", trimmed, top edge brown, white wove, no mark, inserts of stout pale yellow wove, no mark, with loaded paper plates tipped on to each insert and to [1]1v; 14(+2)pt. Baskerville; colour halftone illustrations on the tipped-on loaded leaves, photogravure illustrations in sections [8-16] and [18]; casing, red buckram, gold-blocked on spine: ‘PIERO | DELLA | FRANCESCA | BY | KENNETH | CLARK | PHAIDON’, and on upper cover: ‘PIERO DELLA | FRANCESCA’; printed dust-jacket.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jul/2011