Gill, Eric--Laboureur, J.E.--Hermes, Gertrude

Gill, E. Id Quod Visum Placet, Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press for the Author, 1926, number 40 of 150 copies signed by the author, engraved frontispiece by the author--Sterne, L. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, 1929, 3 volumes, number 185 of 500 copies, engraved illustrations by J.E. Laboureur [Chanticleer 66]--Powys Mathers, E. The Amores of P. Ovidius Naso, 1932, number 85 of 350 copies, engraved illustrations by J.E. Laboureur [Chanticleer 80]--Toussaint, F. The Garden of Caresses, 1934, number 26 of 276 copies, one of an unspecified number specially bound with an additional suite of the engravings, engraved illustrations by Gertrude Hermes, with only 4 of the 6 additional engravings [Pertelote 100]--Scott, W.S. The Athenians, 1943, first edition, number 240 of 350 copies, portrait frontispiece,  [Cockalorum 158]; Harriet and Mary, 1944, first edition, number 471 of 500 copies, portrait frontispiece [Cockalorum 161]; Shelley at Oxford, 1944, first edition, number 436 of 500 copies, portrait frontispiece [Cockalorum 163]; and 52 others [Chanticleer 1,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15(2 copies), 16,17,19,24,32,36(2 copies), 38,39,41,42,45,46,47,54,55,56,59,70,73,83,98,108; Pertelote 114,121,124,127a,128,133,135,150,153; Cockalorum 169,173,174,179]; and 10 others printed at the Golden Cockerel Press for publication under other imprints--various sizes, original bindings (67)  

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Included in the lot are 10 early volumes printed at the Golden Cockerel Press for other publishers or for private commission, including Arnold Bennett's The Bright Island, one of 20 copies in full vellum issued in 1924 for subscribers to 'The Bookman's Journal' in the Vine Books series.