Lot 204
Golden Cockerel Press
Glory of Life. By Llewellyn Powys, 1934
£1,375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
One of 275 copies on paper, 4to, original quarter vellum, wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, blindstamp (Birkbeck College) to corner of title-page, red lettering of title offset onto frontispiece;
Shakespeare Head Press. The Works of Edmund Spenser. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-2. One of 375 sets on paper, 8 volumes, 4to, original green quarter calf, partly unopened, rubbing to headcaps, spotting to edges;
and 9 others, private press, including Argonaut Press (4 works: A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier, 1927, one 975 copies; The Voyages of the Cabots, 1929, one of 1,050; The Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1930, one of 1,050; Ralegh's Last Voyage, 1932, one of 775), Golden Cockerel Press (4 works: Miscellaneous Poems by Jonathan Swift, 1928, one of 375; Laus Veneris, 1948, one of 750; The Labyrinth of the World, 1950, one of 370; The Metamorphoses, 1958, one of 200), and Shakespeare Head Press, Pindar's Odes of Victory, 1927 (18)
