Posted by John Wilson on January 09, 2005 at 11:38:58 from 202.154.157.202 user hugo.
In Reply to: Re: War Time Economy Standard Books posted by Jim McDowell on January 09, 2005 at 02:34:48:
If War-Economy books have more lines per page than Prewar books, then as well as fewer pages before and after the main text section there should be fewer pages in the text section.
I have a prewar copy of PP (Cape Hardback; Fifth Impression, August 1937 - the Fourth Impression was July 1937 and the Second & Third Impressions both November 1936!). Ex-library, the library stamp is 9 Apr 1940. Four pages all had 33 lines of text. While the page numbers are in small type and close below the text, there is a fairly large bottom margin (21-23 mm)
Chapter I begins on page 11, and Chapter XXXV ends on page 384 (it is not numbered). This makes 374 (384-10) pages of text plus illustrations. There are 23 full-page illustrations but one (The Lookout) is the Frontispiece, making 22 in the text. Hence there are 352 (374-22) pages of text. What does a wartime or early postwar edition have?