Accession number:
PML 196010
Published:
London : Routledge, 1944 [i.e. 1945]
Description:
154 p. : ill. (frontis.) ; 19 cm
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2014.
Notes:
First edition.
Scheduled for 1944 but not published until mid-February, 1945 (cf. Welch journals and biography; Routledge later corrected the title-page mistake in the second edition).
Frontispiece, title-page designs, chapter head-pieces, and endpapers illustrated by the author.
Binding:
Yellow cloth, in pictorial dust jacket; lettering and illustrations by Denton Welch.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Presentation inscription from Welch on verso of frontispiece: "To Noël / from / Denton / Pitt's Folly Feb. 15th / 1945". Charlotte (Adeney) Forman's ownership inscription, dated 1978, with a note below in her hand: Noël died Jan. 24th 1978.
Provenance:
Noël Adeney; by descent to her daughter, Charlotte Forman.
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