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136.GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. MONCRIF, Francois Augustin Paradis de. Moncrif’s Cats. The Golden Cockerel Press. 1961
£398
4to., Navy blue morocco, with vertical inlaid panels of deep red morocco, that on the upper board decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, illustrated with ten collotype reproductions of illustrations by Coypel from the edition of 1727. A fine copy.
One of one hundred numbered copies, specially bound by E.W. Hiscox, from a total edition of four hundred numbered copies printed on Saunders mould-made paper at the Chiswick Press.
137.GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GHOSE, Sudhin N. Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India. Golden Cockerel Press. 1961.
£398 139
Tall 4to., original full brown morocco by E.W. Hiscox, lettered in gilt on spine with gilt block of a sitar-playing woman on upper board, top edge gilt. With six full page illustrations, and endpaper illustrations, by Shrimati E. Carlile. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies this one of 100 specially bound copies.
138. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John. Cockerel Cavalcade.
Engraved in wood 1938-1945. Introduced by Christopher Buckland Wright. Bertram Rota. 1988.
John Buckland Wright’s Devices £78
8vo., original wrapper. Illustrated throughout. A near fine copy.
First edition limited to 200 numbered copies. Drawings and successive states of engravings of cockerels made from 1938 to 1945 for Christopher Sandford, reproduced in colour and black-and-white, with an introduction by the artist’s son Christopher
139. GEMINI PRESS. MARKS, Herbert Henry. HUGHES- STANTON, Blair. Pastoral or Virtue Requited by H.H.M. with Wood-engravings by B. H-S. Higham Colchester. Printed at the Gemini Press. 1935.
£198 140
8vo., original buckram backed paper covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. With 4 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Spine a little sunned otherwise a very good copy.
First edition limited edition of 120 copies.
140. [GIBBINGS, Robert]. BALSTON, Thomas. The Wood- Engravings of Robert Gibbings. Art and Technics. 1949.
£98
8vo. Original green cloth; illustrated with 115 engravings; a very good copy in slightly chipped illustrated dust-jacket.
First edition. This copy is inscribed by Gibbings for the publisher Martin Dent: “To Martin from Robert Xmas 1949”.
141.GIBBINGS, Robert. The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with some recollections by the artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1959. £298
4to. Original black buckram, blocked in gilt, with the original clear plastic jacket lettered in red; illustrated with over 1,000 wood-engravings, including a tinted frontispiece on thin paper; a very good copy.
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