| British Library: | 7891.dd.13 |
| Curwen Press: | R21 |
| British Library: | 7891.dd.13 |
| Curwen Press: | R21 |
| British Library: | W57/4797 DSC |
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[row of 14 circular flowers] DISCHI FONOTIPIA [row of 14 circular flowers] A GOLDEN TREASURY BY J. R. BENNETT THE RECORD COLLECTOR SHOP
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A serially numbered first edition, limited to 1,000 copies The number appears on the label April, 1953
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Printed at THE CURWEN PRESS Plaistow, London, E.13 and published for James Dennis for THE RECORD COLLECTOR SHOP
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[i--vii] viii-x [xi] xii-xiii [xiv-xvi] 1-69 [70-72] 73-88.
Crown 8o: 7⅜" × 4 ⅞", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 8(+1)pt. Times; casing, black cloth, gold-blocked up spine: ‘DISCHI FONOTIPIA’; upper cover bears circular printed paper label impressed into 3¾" diameter space on cover, printed in green with design from label of Fonotipia gramophone disc, in red with the words : ‘DISCHI FONOTIPIA Numerical Catalogue — A Golden Treasury Compiler – J. R. Bennett, Publisher – J. Dennis IPSWICH R.C.S. 1953’ and in black with the signatures of compiler and publisher and the serial number of the copy.
Bennett's first discography; sub-title alludes to Palgrave's anthology of English poetry; the compiler is not related to Sir Richard Rodney Bennett or the family of Sir William Sterndale Bennett. WorldCat gives his forenames as John Reginald.
B.L. copy at 7891.dd.13 is numbered 0023, the legal deposit copy; Curwen copy was numbered 0654.
13/May/1953
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 19/Jul/2018