拍品 295
  • 295

Golden Cockerel Press

估價
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
招標截止

描述

  • A collection of 9 books published at The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925-1961, comprising:
  • paper
[Swift, J.] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. 1925, 2 volumes in one, number 161 of 480 copies, later full morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere [Chanticleer 33]
de Grammont, Sieur. Heartsease and Honesty. 1935, number 148 of 300 copies, original cloth-backed patterned boards [Chanticleer 108]
Sparrman, A. A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolute. 1944, number 247 of 350 copies, original cloth [Cockalorum 162]
Whitfield, C. Together and Alone. 1945, one of 500 copies, of which this is number 60 of 100 in cream morocco-backed boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe [Cockalorum 165]
Swinburne, A.C. Laus Veneris. 1948, number 312 of 750 copies, original cloth-backed patterned boards [Cockalorum 178]
Swinburne, A.C. Parsiphaë. 1950, number 474 of 500 copies, original cloth [Cock a Hoop 185]
Herrick, R. One Hundred and Eleven Poems. 1955, number 143 of 550 copies, original vellum-backed cloth, slipcase [Cock a Hoop 199];
Flint, W.R. Minxes Admonished or Beauty Reproved. 1955, number 250 of 550 copies, original red morocco-backed boards, slipcase [Cock a Hoop 202]
Moncrif, Augustin Paradis de. Moncrif's Cats. 1961, one of 400 copies, of this number 97 of 100 specially bound by Hiscox, original black and red morocco, slipcase [Cock a Hoop 213]
all 4to and large 8vo, occasional wear to extremities, some wear to slipcases (9)

來源

John Raymond Danson, many with his bookplate, sale, Sotheby's Chancery Lane, 25 October 1979, lots 158, 160, 196, 197 and 210

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