Golden Cockerel Press

Hero & Leander Translated from the Greek of Musaeus by F. L. Lucas. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1949. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 in.; 228 x 140 mm, uncut), 12 engraved text illustrations (including frontispiece and title vignette) by John Buckland-Wright, signed in pencil by the artist and the translator; a few light stains in the lower margin of page 8. Publisher's gilt-stamped vellum, with the Prospectus laid in, in a russet cloth slipcase. Number 24 of 100 copies with an extra engraving specially bound of a total edition of 500. — Algernon CharlesSwinburne. Laus Veneris. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. 8vo (10 x 6 1/8 in.; 254 x 155 mm, uncut), 12 wood-engraved illustrations (including frontispiece and title vignette) by John Buckland-Wright. Red morocco with gilt pictorial inlay on upper cover and gilt-stamped title on spine, in a green board slipcase; slipcase tearing. Number 68 of 100 copies with an extra engraving and specially bound, of a total edition of 750. — The Book of Days of Llewelyn Powys. Thoughts from his Philosophy selected by John Wallis. London:  The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Folio (13 x 9 in.; 330 x 228 mm), title printed in red and black, sidenotes printed in red, 12 full-page etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis. Green half-morocco and brown buckram, gilt-stamped title and publisher's emblem on spine. Number 261 of 295 on Batchelor hand-made paper, out of a total edition of 300, a Prospectus laid in.

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