Item 23 - Postcard from Edward Heawood to R. B. McKerrow

Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, S.W.7.—Adds a note he omitted to include in his letter (Add. MS. 355/4/22).

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Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, S.W.7
Feb. 27, 1928

Dear Sir

In my letter posted this morning {1} I omitted to say that in the Lyon Strabo of 1557 the watermark appears (divided) exactly in the centre of the front edges. The book is in gatherings of 8, and to an inexperienced cataloguer would present a puzzle,—whether it should be called 12mo or 16mo. Although it is the shape of a 12mo I conclude it is 16mo, printed and folded in half-sheets, this being borne out by the fact that in the first 28 sheets 12 have the watermarks (the same throughout) and 11 have none, though they do not alternate quite regularly. (In the rest of the book the blanks seem more numerous, but some of the marks may have been cut away entirely.) The chain-lines are horizontal on the leaves.

Yrs. v. truly
E. Heawood

[Direction:] R. B. McKerrow Esq. | Enderley | Great Missenden | Bucks

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Postmarked at S. Kensington, S.W.7, at 3.15 p.m. on 27 February 1928.

{1} Add. MS. a. 355/4/22, dated the 25th.

{2} Closing bracket supplied.