Title page: A | BIBLIOGRAPHY | OF | THE WRITINGS OF | JOSEPH CONRAD
(1895–1920) | BY THOMAS J. WISE | ❦ | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY | By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. | 1920 ||
Pagination: [i-viii] ix-xiii [xiv-xvi], [1, 2] 3-105 [106-112], frontispiece with tissue guard in collation; 128 pages total.
Collation: 8vo; [A]-H8, 64 leaves total.
Binding: 22.5 x 18 cm; terracotta paper boards, black lettering to front and spine; uncut. The device on the recto of the last leaf inscribed: The Ashley library. Privately printed. 1920.
Insert: ALS from Thomas J. Wise dated 22/3/21 on watermarked paper (King of Kent | Extra Fine) with letterhead “Kirkstead”, 25 Heath Drive, Hampstead, N.W.3. The letter is a response to a request for two copies of Volume II of Wise’s Swinburne bibliography, which Wise promises to supply the next day to Stevens & Brown (founded in 1864, Literary and Fine Arts Agents).
Limitation: 150 copies, private printing.
Contributors:
Joseph Conrad [Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski] (British-Polish, 1857 – 1924)
Wise, Thomas James (British, 1859 – 1937) – compiler, bibliographer.
R. Clay & Sons Ltd. (London); Clay, Richard (British, 1789 – 1877) – publisher.
The Ashley Library (London) – printer.
