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Price: US$705.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is a 'Limited Edition of 247 copies, this is number 219. / The Book of Ecclesiastes was completed on the 15th day of October, 1934, thirteen years after the foundaion of the Press. / With engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton & it is printed on hand made Batchelor paper which is uncut. / At the time of publication this was the the hundredth book printed by the Golden Cockerel Press. /// This is a part clothed&vellum bound hardback, in good condition-the cloth&vellum of the cover is marked/stained & the bottom back covers corner is 'bumped' & the text pages are slightly 'foxed' & there is a 'bookplate' from the previous owner. (23 pages).
Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$737.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, no. 66 of 247 (250 in total). Folio, pp. 21, [3], incl. 13 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton; printed in orange and black. Original quarter vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, orange cloth boards. Gilt top edge, others untrimmed. Some soiling and scuffing, joint- and edgewear, corners bumped and worn. Bands of darkening to leading edges, very occasional fox spots, threads loose at front hinge, rear fep separated, else, clean; Hughes-Stanton's spectacular engravings remain vivid. A robust copy of the Golden Cockerel Press' hundreth book, featuring Eric Gill's Golden Cockerel font and illustrated throughout with Hughes-Stanton's sumptuous and skilful engravings. Good+ "The work of the engravers of Golden Cockerel books gives the Press its greatest distinction and made a whole period of woodcut revival [.] These books were a happy house for talent of the time, with work from David Jones, Dorothea Braby, Eric Gill, Gwenda Morgan, Eric Ravilious, John Buckland-Wright and Blair Hughes-Stanton" (Franklin, 1969). Colin Franklin (1969) The Private Presses
Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United Kingdom