1955 ZMm

Copies examined

Curwen Press: R26

Title page

[A]2r

Wuthering | Heights | By Emily Bronte | [thick and thin rule] | WITH LITHOGRAPHS BY | Barnett Freedman | [thin and thick rule] COLLINS | ST. JAMES'S PLACE, LONDON | BY ARRANGEMENT WITH | THE HERITAGE PRESS, NEW YORK

Imprint

[A]2v

Date

[A]2v

Collation

[A]8 B8 [C]8 D-Y8 Z6; inserts after [C]2 D5 E2 + 5 F1 + 6 G7 H8 K1 M5 N2 + 8 O8 R5 U6 Z4.

Pagination

[i-v] vi-xv [xvi-xvii] xviii-xxiv [xxv] xxvi-xxx [xxxi-xxxii, 1-3] 4-331 [+1].

Technical description

Medium 8o: 8⅞" × 5½", trimmed, top edge dark grey, artificial head- and tail-bands, white wove, no mark; 11(+1)pt. Baskerville; colour lithographs on inserts; sewn 4-leaf patterned endleaves; casing, spine and 2¼" of each board, red cloth, gold-blocked down spine: ‘[within double-rule border with rounded ends] WUTHERING HEIGHTS · EMILY BRONTE’; and thick and thin gold fillet down each board on edge of red cloth, remainder of boards covered in cream cloth, lithographed in black and pink with designs as on Wi ; slip-case covered in grey paper.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963