Lot 256
Golden Cockerel Press and other private presses
Collection of limited editions
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Golden Cockerel Press. [Six works, comprising:] 1) The Garden of Cyrus ... by Sir Thomas Browne, 1923, one of 115 copies; 2) Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial: or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk by Sir Thomas Browne, 1923, one of 115 copies; 3) Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne, 1923, one of 115 copies; 4) Jeremy Taylor: a Selection from his Works made by Martin Armstrong, 1923, one of 320 copies; 5) The xi. Bookes of the Golden Ass, containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, 1923; 6) Maxims and Considerations of Chamfort, translated, with an Introduction, by E. Powys Mathers, 1926, one of 550 copies. 6 works, all 4to, original holland-backed boards (except The Garden of Cyrus, recently rebound to style, and Maxims, 2 volumes, 8vo, original quarter vellum), Golden Asse with slipcase, Maxims with dust jackets, Hydriopathia and Religio Medici with light discolouration to sides, Jeremy Taylor spine-label renewed, The Golden Asse with two faint marks to front board, Maxims dust jackets chipped and spotted;
Vale Press. Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and Other Essays, by Sir Thomas Browne. London: Vale Press, 1902. One of 310 copies, folio, recent holland-backed boards to style, occasional spotting;
Idem. Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft ever known. London: Vale Press, 1903. One of 300 copies, folio, recent holland-backed boards to style, similar slipcase, spine toned;
Chiswick Press. Pericles and Aspasia by Walter Savage Landor. London: Chiswick Press for George Bell & Sons, 1903. One of 220 copies of which 20 for presentation, folio, original holland-backed boards;
and 4 others (Florence Press, Songs before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1909, one of 650 copies, rebound to style; Illustrations of Britain, Forty-Eight Specially Commissioned Illustrations for the Shell and BP Shilling Guides to Britain, Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, 1964, 8vo, cloth-backed patterned boards, 48 colour plates, slipcase; The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker, London: Martin Secker, 1923, one of 500 copies; Verona Society, The Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry, 1930, one of 500 copies)