Prospectus 10: Nonesuch books for Christmas 1925 for the spring 1926 With a hand-list of books hitherto published by the press, 1925

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 02

Scope and content:

7.5- x 5 3/8 inches; 15 pages, printed by Cambridge University Press in Poliphilus and Blado types on Vidalon handmade paper; and cased in grey Ingres paper covered boards, blocked in blind and gilt on front cover; issued in glassine wrapper (now lacking).

Announcing for the winter of 1925: Histories or tales of past times told by Mother Goose, Burton's Anatomy of melancholy, The collected works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, The tale of Mr Tootleoo, and for 1926: The English poems of John Milton, Ulick and Soracha, The works of Thomas Otway, and The mistriss and other poems.

Contains the letter to The Times Literary Supplement about the Fortune Press edition of Plato's Symposium, printed on Japan vellum and loosely inserted. 'The Nonesuch Press maintains its policy of limiting not merely the number of copies printed of anyone book, but also the total number of its publications. Nonesuch limited editions amount to no more than six for the year. The literary value and typographical pleasantness of these few books (ranging in price from 8s. 6d. to £;. 17S. 6d.) makes this list the most important, though the least extensive, annual programme which the Press has as yet undertaken. The demand for its books grows with every new publication; and the removal of any uncertainty as to their sale enables the Press to give an increasing value, whatever the price of the book.

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