| Curwen Press: | J25a |
| Curwen Press: | J25a |
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THE QUEEN ELIZABETH CORONATION FOREST
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. . . Edited by Barnet Litvinoff and printed at The Curwen Press with typography by Elizabeth Friedlander The cover symbol was designed by Abram Games Edgar Hirshbain's photographs
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THIS FOREST IS BEING PLANTED IN ISRAEL ON THE OCCASION OF THE CORONATION OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II BY HER JEWISH SUBJECTS THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE AS A HUMBLE EXPRESSION OF LOYALTY AND AFFECTION
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THIS VOLUME WAS PRESENTED TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH TO COMMEMORATE THE GIFT OF THE QUEEN ELIZABETH CORONATION FOREST GUILDHALL, OCTOBER 20, 1953
[1-5]4 [6]6 [7]4; insert after [1]1; double end-leaves tipped in front and back.
[1-14] 15-38 [+22].
Imperial 8o: 10¾" × 7½", trimmed, white wove, F. J. Head, insert and section [6] of smooth white wove photographic paper; 14(+3)pt. Ehrhardt, large initials and titles to chapters in blue; photographs on rectos of [6] which is single leaves made into pairs; the design by A. Games on insert after [1]1 appears to be produced by a photographic method; casing, cream buckram, gold-blocked up spine: ‘QUEEN ELIZABETH CORONATION FOREST’, on upper cover in blue and gold the same words incorporated in a design with 6-pointed star and arboreal crown, on lower cover gold-blocked a 6-pointed star; tissue wrapper.
The planting ceremony for the Queen Elizabeth Forest took place on 3/May/1955; it is now (2017) known as the Jerusalem Forest, and lies within the Lower Galilee region, in the Northern District of Israel.
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised d/mmm/200?
