Lot 138
Golden Cockerel Press
Ecclesiastes or the Preacher
£580
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
[London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. First edition, one of 247 copies, folio, original quarter vellum, orange cloth sides, wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, headings and initials printed in orange [Chanticleer 97];
Idem. The First Crusade. The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalemites, translated into English for the first time by Somerset de Chair. [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1945. First edition, one of 500 copies, original half vellum, original cloth sides, wood-engravings by Clifford Webb
Footnote
Note: According to the colophon, Ecclesiastes was the hundredth book printed at the Golden Cockerel Press. It receives an approving write-up in the press's bibliography: 'Our press-work in this book is judged to be almost perfect. The engravings, which have their finest white line (which must not be lost) in the midst of full-blacks (which require heavy inking) are the hardest in the world to print. They were, however, printed at one impression with the type'.
Provenance: Property of an English collector.
