Lot 122
  • 122

Gibbings, Robert--Morgan, Gwenda--Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Gibbings, Robert--Morgan, Gwenda--Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil
  • Group of 8 Golden Cockerel Press small volumes in various editions, all 16mo or small 8vo, comprising:
  • Paper
Thoreau, H.D. Where I Lived and What I Lived For, 1924, number 29 of 380 copies of which this is one of 30 specially bound and signed by the artist, printed in blue and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, full blue morocco [Chanticleer 21]--Andreyev, L. Abyss, 1929, number 282 of 500 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Ivan Lebedeff [Chanticleer 67]--Pushkin, A.A. The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, 1936, number 100 of 100 copies on hand-made paper specially bound with pictorial title printed in gold, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, red and gold cloth [Pertelote 115]--Binyon, L. Brief Candles, 1938, number 13 of 100 copies specially bound and signed by author and artist, wood-engraved illustrations by Helen Binyon, black and gold cloth [Pertelote 139]--Faraday, W. The Wisdom of the Cymry, [1939], number 18 of 60 numbered copies specially bound, wood-engraved pictorial title page by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve printed in red, cream and gold cloth [Pertelote 144]--Bonaparte, N. Supper at Beaucaire, 1945, number 76 of 100 copies signed by the translator and specially bound, full vellum gilt [Cockalorum 166]--Gray, T. Elegy written in a Country Church Yard, 1946, number 75 of 750 copies, one of 80 specially bound, wood-engraved illustrations by Gwenda Morgan, full green morocco gilt [Cockalorum 172]; and 4 others, one limited, the others unlimited editions [Pertelote 126, 139 (2 copies); Cockalorum 166]--16mo and small 8vo, original bindings, several in dust jackets or collector's slipcases or folding cases (11)    

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