Adrien
Le Corbeau / T. E. Lawrence
Le
Gigantesque
rendered into English as
The Forest Giant
Parallel
French and English Texts
With an Introduction by Jeremy Wilson
Specification of the first issue
Only about 100 copies of this issue were bound
and distributed to subscribers.
224
pages, facsimile frontis., one facsimile in text. Octavo, trimmed page-size
234 x 156 mm. Typeset in
Caslon by Castle Hill Press. Printed
on high-quality 100 g.s.m. acid-free paper. Quarter
cloth / full cloth 250
copies,
numbered 101-350.
Alternative bindings:
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Quarter
cloth with Indian paper sides, issued in a light card
slip-case to protect the sides, or
-
Full cloth
where this is specified for library orders. No dust jacket.
Top edge gilt, coloured end-papers, head and tail bands.
 
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Quarter-goatskin binding (a standard series
binding for Castle Hill Press publications) with additional facsimiles
45 copies, numbered 56-100, bound in quarter brown goatskin with
cloth sides; top edge gilt, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir,
with an additional
eight pages of facsimile letters etc. Issued in a card
slip-case.
 
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Full-goatskin binding with additional facsimiles 45
copies, numbered 16-55, bound in full
dark-red goatskin. All edges gilt, hand-marbled end-papers by Ann Muir, head and tail bands. With an additional
eight pages of facsimile letters etc (as quarter-goatskin copies).
Issued in a slip-case.
Designer binding (these were not bound in the first issue) 15 copies, numbered 1-15, bound in a specially commissioned inlaid goatskin binding. Details on request. Two additional copies, lettered 'A' and 'B',
are reserved for the publishers
Two additional copies, lettered 'A' and 'B',
are reserved for the publishers
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