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The Roadmender
Michael Fairless (Margaret Fairless Barber)
The Roadmender is a Christian spiritualist book written by Margaret Fairless Barber (1869-1901) which was published posthumously in 1902. There have been more than 30 editions. The Blampied edition is one of several illustrated editions published by Duckworth. It was also published in Canada by the Musson Book Company of Toronto (see below).
Bibliography code: DUC-24.1i
Publisher: Duckworth and Company
Series: None
Year: October 1924
Format: 8vo
Pages: x, pp 121
Binding: Plain blue boards backed with grey cloth with title and author at top in gold on a blue background; publisher in gold at base of spine
Size: 244 x 185 mm
Dust jacket signed: Blampied, at lower margin of illustration
Internal illustrations: Frontispiece with plate mark on glossy paper; decorated title page on wove paper; 7 illustrations with plate marks on glossy paper bound in on unnumbered pages
Price: 10 shillings
Printing history: None stated
Printed by: Ebenezer Bayliss & Son, Ltd, Trinity Press, Worcester
Notes: All the plates are on unumbered pages, bound in. They have plate marks.
On page ix, under the heading 'List of Illustrations', this is stated: The illustrations have been specially design for this edition of The Roadmender,
and are reproduced by arrangement with the Lefevre Galleries.
The equivalent cost of the book in 2020 using purchasing power parity is about £28.
Dust jacket (click to enlarge)
Frontispiece (L) signed by Blampied and Title Page (R), (click to enlarge)
Canadian edition: MUS-24.1
This book was also issued by The Musson Book Company Limited, Toronto, Canada (book code MUS-24.1). It differs only in three respects: the name of the publisher in gold at the base of the spine is MUSSON; the date of publication is not given on the verso of the title page; and the name of the publisher is changed at the base of the decorated title page. It was printed by the same printer as the British edition and has the same binding.
Bibliography code: DUC-24.1iii
Publisher: Duckworth and Company
Series: None
Year: September 1928
Format: 8vo
Pages: x, pp 150
Binding: Plain orange boards with title and author at top in gold in a box and published in gold at base
Size: 222 x 164 mm
Dust jacket signed: Blampied, at lower left margin
Price: 5 shillings
Image of most of dust jacket (click to enlarge)
Internal illustrations: Frontispiece with plate mark on glossy paper and 7 illustrations with plate marks on glossy paper bound in on unnumbered pages
Printing history: First published October 1924. Reset and reissued with additional matter, September 1928
Printed by: Ebenezer Bayliss &amo; Son, Ltd, Trinity Press, Worcester
Notes: This second impresson has additional matter in the form of a Biographical note with letters and an unfinished story. There is no decorated title page.
Bibliography code: DUC-25.1
Publisher: Duckworth and Company
Series: The Roadmender Series
Year: 1925
Format: 8vo
Pages: vii, pp 158, pp 2 adverts
Binding: Plain textured black and brown cloth cover; title and author on spine in gold with three decorative panels in gold
Book size: 168 x 112 mm
Slipcase: Pale brown card (173 x 103 x 18 mm) with frontispiece illustration by Blampied pasted on
Internal illustrations: decorated enpapers signed WILL G MEIN
Printing history: Fifty-fourth impression 1925
Printed by: Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
Price: Not known
Image of front of slipcase (click to enlarge)
Notes: This edition uses a single illustration from the Blampied edition, which is advertised inside the front cover with four other editions priced at 21s, 10s, 7s 6d and 4s 6d. Duckworth's sold an edition to suit every pocket.
The caption to the illustration states: Reproduced by permission of the Artist and the Lefevre Galleries proprietors of the Copyright.