Golden Cockerel Press

A fine group of 7 examples from the press, published 1927-1941, as follows:



Eric Gill. Clothing without Cloth. An Essay on the Nude. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931, 8vo, 4 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, publisher's red buckram with gilt-stamped monogram of the press on upper cover and title on spine. One of 500 copies on handmade paper. — Robert Gibbings. The 7th Man. A True Cannibal Tale of the South Sea Islands. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1930, 8vo, wood-engraved text illustrations, original yellow quarter buckram and decorated paper boards. Number 131 of 500 copies. — John Suckling. A Ballad upon a Wedding. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, 8vo, half-title, wood-engraved text illustration and one musical plate, publisher's cream quarter buckram and decorated paper boards. Number 125 of 375 copies. — Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928, 8vo, 6 engraved plates, publisher's red buckram, gilt-stamped title on spine. Number 13 of 500 copies.— Jonathan Swift. Miscellaneous Poems. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928, 8vo, wood-engraved text illustrations plus one proof copy signed by Gibbings laid in, publisher's quarter vellum, gilt-stamped title on spine. Number 14 of 150 copies. — Harold Acton & Lee Yi-Hsieh. Glue and Lacquer. Four Cautionary Tales. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1941, 4to, engraved frontispiece, publisher's blue quarter morocco and gilt-stamped yellow buckram with Chinese characters. Number 359[sic] of 350 ordinary copies on mould-made paper. — Lucian of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian ... translated from the Greeke into English by Francis Hickes. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, large 8vo, wood-engraved text illustrations, publisher's quarter morocco and gray buckram, gilt-stamped title on spine. Number 58 of 275 copies.

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