Lot 138
  • 138

Golden Cockerel Press

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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Description

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The Song of Songs called by many the Canticle of Canticles. Waltham Saint Lawrence: [Robert Gibbings], 1925



4to (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 254 x 190 mm, uncut). Woodcut title vignette in red, woodcut illustrations cut by Eric Gill. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt-stamped dove in the center of upper cover, original cream printed wrappers; wrappers soiled with a few edge tears.

Literature

Chanticleer 31

Condition

4to (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 254 x 190 mm, uncut). Woodcut title vignette in red, woodcut illustrations cut by Eric Gill. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt-stamped dove in the center of upper cover, original cream printed wrappers; wrappers soiled with a few edge tears.
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Catalogue Note

Number 596 of an edition of 750 numbered copies.