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Me as a Model
W[illiam] R[ichard] Titterton
W.R. Titterton was British journalist, writer and poet who was the biographer of G.K. Chesterton. This is an autobiographical novel which the introduction states is neither fact nor fiction. It was also published in the USA by Mitchell Kennerley using a book that had been printed in England but with a different publisher printed on the dust jacket and title page.
First edition
Bibliography code: PAL-14.1i
Publisher: Frank & Cecil Palmer
Series: none
Year: 1914
Format: 8vo
Pages: front free end paper, frontispiece, pp 188, 4 pp adverts, rear free endpaper
Binding: blue cloth decorated in black, orange and yellow of a French street scene, with title and author at top in black; title in orange and black at top of spine, author and publisher in black
Size: 210 x 151 mm
Dust jacket signed: BLAMPIED, left middle underneath window
Internal illustrations: frontispiece and illustrations facing page 32 and 54 in colours all signed Blampied, printed on glossy ununmbered pages bound in; three illustrations facing pages 36, 122 and 126 in black and white also printed in glossy paper on unnumbered pages bound in, one signed Blampied; six full page illustrations in line on numbered pages, none signed; plus 31 small illustrations in line on numbered pages, two signed (p 20 and p 27)
Price: 5 shillings
Printing history: First published 1914
Printed by: none stated
Notes: This is printed on deckle edge paper. A variant has been seen in which the covers are printed in black on blue only, without the yellow and orange.
Decorated cover (click to enlarge)
First American edition
Bibliography code: PAL-14.1ii
Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley, New York & London
Series: none
Year: not dated
Format: 8vo
Pages: front free end paper, pp 188, frontispiece, 4 pp blank, rear free endpaper
Binding: blue cloth decorated in black, orange and yellow of a French street scene, with title and author at top in black; title in orange and black at top of spine, author and publisher in black
Size: 210 x 151 mm
Dust jacket signed: BLAMPIED, left middle underneath window
Internal illustrations: frontispiece and illustrations facing page 32 and 54 in colours all signed Blampied, printed on glossy ununmbered pages bound in; three illustrations facing pages 36, 122 and 126 in black and white also printed in glossy paper on unnumbered pages bound in, one signed Blampied; six full page illustrations in line on numbered pages, none signed; plus 31 small illustrations in line on numbered pages, two signed (p 20 and p 27)
Price: not known
Printing history: none stated
Printed by: none stated
Notes: This is the American edition with a modified title page, no copyright statement, only All rights reserved and Printed in England stamped underneath.
Frontispiece on both British and American editions (click to enlarge)