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132. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John (illustrator). Pasiphae. Golden Cockerel Press. 1950.
£198
8vo. Original blue and yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt, bull’s head in gilt on upper cover, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; 6 copper engravings by John Buckland Wright; very slight fading to spine, otherwise a nice copy.
One of 500 numbered copies. Swinburne’s poem on the theme of the Greek Myth of Pasiphae. Originally published by Thomas Wise in a privately printed edition of about 20 copies, this is the first “correctly printed” edition, generally available to the public.
133. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BEAUMONT, Francis. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John (illustrator). Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. A Poem Attributed to Francis Beaumont. Edited by Gwyn Jones. With Ten Engravings in colour by John Buckland- Wright. The Golden Cockerel Press. 1951.
£1,250
4to., original blue morocco-backed green buckram boards with yellow lines, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated in colour by John Buckland Wright. Spine just a little sunned, ink name, otherwise a near fine copy in original cloth slipcase.
Limited edition of 380 copies, this one of 50 specially bound in half blue morocco and with an extra engraving, signed by Gwyn Jones and Buckland-Wright.
“One of the lesser known Elizabethan versions of classical legend based in this case on a theme from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. John Buckland- Wright matched the richness of the poem’s imagery with a most successful series of colour engravings, the first to appear in any of my books. I had come to think that the Golden Cockerel had achieved everything that could be done to develop engraving in black and white: the whole technique had been elevated to such a height of competence that I felt we had to break new ground by turning to colour. This I proposed to the artists who were then working with me, offering a choice of books and leaving them to illustrate whichever they wished, and encouraging each to develop a style of colour engraving of his own. John was the first to complete his book, achieving maximum of effect by combining three colours only, a golden yellow, a blue, and a grey, mated with such skill that anyone might have thought he had in fact employed a very much wider range of colours” (Cock-a-hoop).
134. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. STEWART, Cecil. Topiary. An Historical Diversion. Golden Cockerel Press. [1954].
£398
Royal 8vo. Original half orange niger, patterned paper boards, top edges gilt; pp. 34 + colophon; coloured engravings by Peter Barker-Mill; a very nice copy in card slipcase.
Limited to 500 copies, this being one of 100 in the special binding.
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135. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Zastrozzi. Golden Cockerel Press. 1955.
£298
8vo., original black morocco backed marbled paper covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine. With illustrations by Cecil Keeling. A fine copy in original (slightly worn) slipcase.
Limited edition of 200 numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum Shelley wrote Zastrozzi at the age of seventeen while attending his last year at Eton College, though it was not published until later in 1810 while he was attending Oxford University College. The novel was Shelley’s first published prose work.
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