Elizabethan love songs: PB 1955.1

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Titles

Elizabethan love songs
Translated as: Edited by John Hadfield ; with lithographs by John Piper.

Maker(s)

Editor: Hadfield, John
Illustrator: Piper, John
Publisher: Cupid Press
Printer: W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Paper maker: Saunders, T. H.
Paper maker: Douglas Cockerell and Son

Description

Vii,[2],134p, [8] leaves of plates : col. ill ; 24cm

Place(s) associated

Barham Manor
Ipswich

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1956-03-23) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Dating

Production date: AD 1955

Note

"Of this book six hundred and sixty copies only have been printed and bound ... by W. S. Cowell Ltd., of Ipswich ... The text is set in 12 pt Bembo; the decorative borders are Monotype versions of Elizabethan fleurons. The colour lithographs have been drawn on plastocowell film by John Piper and printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd. The Antique Laid paper was mould-made by T. H. Saunders, and the paper boards were hand-marbled by Douglas Cockerell & Son. Museum has copy no. 73, signed by the lithographer. Binding: quarter, green cloth, marbled paper sides, gilt fillet; gilt lettering on brown leather spine label. Top edge of pages gilt.