1955 ZMd

Copies examined

British Library: q734.45 *288* DSC
Curwen Press: S16

Title page

[1]2r

RUDOLF WITTKOWER | GIAN LORENZO | BERNINI | THE SCULPTOR OF | THE ROMAN BAROQUE | LONDON MCMLV | [thick and thin rule] | THE PHAIDON PRESS

Imprint

[1]2v

. . . | PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES PRINTED BY CLARKE AND SHERWELL LTD · NORTHAMPTON | BOUND BY KEMP HALL BINDERY · OXFORD

Collation

[1-3]8 [4]4 [5-10]8 [11]4 [12-16]8 [17]6 [18-19]4; inserted conjugate pairs around [2] and after [3]2+6.

Pagination

[i-ix] x [1] 2-32 [33] 34-6 [37] 38-43 [44-169] 170-1 [172-5] 176-7 [178] 179-84 [185] 186-97 [198] 199-221 [222] 223-4 [225] 226-38 [239] 240 [241] 242-4 [245-9] 250-2 [253] 254-5 [+3].

Technical description

Medium 4o: trimmed 12"×8¾", white loaded paper, sections [5-12] and inserts are heavier white loaded paper; 16(+1)pt. Bembo, 11(+1)pt. Bembo; photogravure illustrations in [5-12], halftone illustrations in text; casing, open-wove brown and white cloth, blocked in brown up spine: ‘[at foot] PHAIDON | PRESS [then single line] BERNINI [then double line again at head] RUDOLF | WITTKOWER’, and on upper cover: ‘BERNINI’; printed dust-jacket.

Note

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 26/Apr/2013