Name: Auction: Golden Cockerel Press Per Vigilium Veneris. Engravings by John Buckland-Wright
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 2772 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II

Our Autumn 2022 auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs included highlights such as an autograph letter from Oliver Cromwell on the marriage of his daughter, an exceptionally early album of photographic salt prints by Edinburgh architect Charles George Hood Kinnear, and a collection of autograph letters from John Ruskin to his acolyte Ada Hartnell.&nbsp;It also featured the&nbsp;Library of the Late William St Clair Part II, and an important collection of private press material including original artwork and sculpture by Eric Gill. &nbsp;

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Featuring the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II

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The Vigil of Venus. Translation by F. L. Lucas. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. First edition, one of 100 copies only, 4to, original citron morocco by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe, cockerel frieze in blind to covers, title-pages in Latin and English each with two engraved vignettes, 14 engraved head- and tailpieces, housed in original brown buckram slipcase, with proofs of both title-pages and a single bifolium of text laid in, spine darkened [Pertelote 141]

Golden Cockerel Press

Per Vigilium Veneris. Engravings by John Buckland-Wright

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