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129. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SEVERIN, Mark. Golden Cockerel Press Prospectus for The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. £98
Mounted, the prospectus itself 254mm x 158.75mm.
Printed in black and red on grey laid paper with a woodcut engraving by Mark Severin from the Homeric Hymn. The woodcuts by Severin were the first time his work had been published in an English book.
The size of the prospectus shows it to be part of the first printing of 2700 copies (10” by 6 1/4”) as detailed in Cock-a-Hoop (P177).
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130.GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. MABINOGION. A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones. Golden Cockerel Press. 1948.
£1,500
Folio. Original full orange morocco, large gilt design based on the title-page engraving on both covers, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; 20 engravings in wood and scraper board by Dorothea Braby, title-page printed in black and orange; small bookplate on front paste-down, a very nice copy, preserved in a cloth-covered slipcase.
Limited to 550 numbered copies, this being one of 75 specially bound copies, signed by Dorothea Braby and the translators.
“Never can an illustrator have taken more trouble to achieve a perfect interpretation of the great literature of a nation in the terms of its own art” (Cockalorum 176).
131. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BANNET, Ivor. WEBB, Clifford (illustrator). The Amazons, a Novel. Golden Cockerel Press. 1948.
£248
Imperial 8vo. Original half brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; 12 wood-engravings by Clifford Webb, 3 maps in pen and ink by Mina Greenhill; a fine copy.
Limited to 500 copies. “Clifford Webb’s engravings seemed to me to be the finest yet produced by this master of black and white” (Cockalorum 181).
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