The Turkey and the Turk a Mummers' play by G.K. Chesterton, arranged and pictured by Thomas Derrick
Publication details: Ditchling St. Dominic's Press 1930| Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Book-Reference
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GK Chesterton Collection | Reference | GKC.2.TUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | C.413 |
Not original; photocopied pages bound in hardback leather cover. Copy of: 'This is no. 43 of one hundred copies printed on Batchelor hand-made paper on a hand press, July 1930. Author: G.K. Chesterton Artist: Thomas Derrick.'
Enclosure: [folded piece of paper with printed text] extract of text: The Turkey and the Turk. ‘Published in an edition limited to 100 copies’ …The fact is that 100 sets of sheets were printed but… ‘very few bound copies were issued; some sets of sheets were sold unbound, and most of the edition was ultimately burnt’...Probably not more that 35 to 40 copies survived in all.
NB - the claims that most of the copies were burnt and few survived have been contested - see
The Mystery of The Turkey and the Turk
Hasnes, Geir
Chesterton review, 2019, Vol.45 (1), p.83-95