Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter bound in creme vellum over patterned boards. With 41 pages of text and illustrations, and limited to 500 numbered copies. The text is reprinted from an 1750 edition. With the bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books affixed to the front pastedown.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: 500 copies, 8vo, (184mm), [4],43p. 3 copper engravings by Hester Sainsbury. Untrimmed in original quarter cloth, decorated paper sides, a little discoloured and the backstrip slightly soiled, bookplate. Originally written in 1750 by John Hill, under the pseudonym of Abraham Johnson, the text contains a hoax upon the Royal Society in revenge of his rejection as a candidate for membership.
Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 192 of 500 such copies. Original creme vellum backed boards, just a little rubbed and age dulled. Contents crisp and clean. No pen-marks. Size: 185mm x 115mm; collation: pp. iv, 43, complete with three copper engravings by Hester Sainsbury. Printed on English hand-made paper. Thus a very good copy. Chanticleer: 70.
Seller: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$48.94 + shipping
Description: (4), 40, (4) pp. + 3 plates. Publisher's quarter vellum with uncut edges, top edge gilt. Spine just slightly soiled and rubbed, else fine. Condition Near Fine. Edition of 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 168. Satirical report on the possibility of immaculate conceptions anonymously sent to the Royal British Society in 1750.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, 1/500 copies printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press. 12mo. (4), 40), (1) pp. Three plates, title page vignette. Addressing the premise that "a woman may conceive and be brought to bed without any commerce with man," the text is reprinted from the edition of 1750. Very good. Parchment-backed patterned boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (#7721).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, the text reproduced from an edition of 1750 and accompanied by three original copper engravings by Hester Sainsbury, each with a loose tissue protector, as issued. Limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #141). Small 8vo. Quarter parchment with decorated paper sides. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A touch of light browning to the free endpapers, and a scuff to the fore-edge and one corner tip of the upper board. Some leaves uncut. A very good copy in the original unprinted tissue protector, now a little tanned and chipped.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$71.42 + shipping
Description: [iv], 40[2] pp, 3 copper engraved plates by Hester Sainsbury. Parchment backed boards 1/4 style, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt otherwise uncut. 18.5 cm x 11.5 cm. Spine slightly discoloured, contents lightly age browned.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 41 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Limited edition. copy 101 of 500 on English hand-made paper. Printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings. Printed from the edition of 1750. CHANTICLEER 70. Spine slightly darkened. Orig. quarter bound parchment and decorated boards. Teg. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 319 of 500 copies. 12m0. (iv), 41p. Illustrated by Hester Sainsbury with three copper engravings. Bound in gilt-titled quarter parchment over pattern paper boards, t.e.g. Golden Cockerel Bibliography, No. 70.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 477 of 500 copies. With 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury. 41 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Front free endpaper of our other copy bears quote: "'This satire was written by 'Sir' John Hill (1716-1775), the implacable critic of the Royal Society, and was intended to ridicule the current belief in animalcules and seminal particles. The Satire is sometimes wrongly attributed to the Rev. F. Coventry' F. Cote, Early Theories of Sexual Generation, Oxford, 1930" Ashley Montagu. Vellum-backed decorated boards, uncut. Spine sunned, else VG With 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury. 41 pp. 1 vols. 12mo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 153 of 500 copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper. 3 full-page copper engravings by Hester Sainsbury. Special wood-engraved paper-covered boards by the artist, parchment back lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Spine just slightly dusty. A very good copy indeed. An eighteenth-century scientific hoax by `Sir' John Hill, purporting to show "by the most incontestable evidence, drawn from reason and practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed without any commerce with man". (Chanticleer 70)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.88 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, vellum-backed patterned boards. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Endpapers very slightly discoloured. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Scans on request. ; 40 pages; Description: 40 p. Illus. 19 cm. Bibliography - Small Press History (UK) . Subjects: Reproduction. Limited edition (no. 323 of a run of 500 only) . "Reprinted from the edition of 1750." 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With 3 Engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury, with tissue guards. 40pp. Short thin 8vo, vellum-backed printed boards, t.e.g.; partly uncut. Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. Fine. The text is reprinted from the edition of 1750. One of 500 numbered copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$132.64 + shipping
Description: With 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury. Pp. [iv]+42(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece and 2 plates, cockerel device on title page; narrow cr. 8vo; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, patterned papered boards, spine faintly discoloured, fore-corners of boards a trifle rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, the free endpapers lightly offset, upper hinge tender, short closed tear to fore-edge pp. 3/4; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1930. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies on English hand-made paper. Chanticleer 70. *Written and published in 1750 by the botanist John Hill under the pseudonym Abraham Johnson. Hill was engaged in a campaign of criticism and derision against the Royal Society after he failed to gain membership of the Society. In this satirical text, the fictitious doctor 'Abraham Johnson' claimed to prove 'by most Incontestable Evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a Woman may conceive and be brought to Bed without any Commerce with Man'.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$142.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, vellum-backed patterned boards. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Endpapers very slightly discoloured. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Scans on request. ; 40 pages; Description: 40 p. Illus. 19 cm. Bibliography - Small Press History (UK) . Subjects: Reproduction. Limited edition (no. 323 of a run of 500 only) . "Reprinted from the edition of 1750." 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$147.03 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Written and published in 1780 by Hill as a hoax upon the Royal Society, in revenge for his rejection as a candidate for membership. For this edition Hesther Sainsbury provided three copper-engravings and a wood-engraved repeat pattern for the binding. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being No. 163. ¶ Description: Quarter vellum with special patterned paper covered boards, gilt title on spine. Octavo 18 × 10.5 cm; pag.: [2]ll., 40pp., [2]ll. With 3 full-page copper engravings (recto only). Printed from Caslon Old Face on English hand-made paper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. ¶ Ref.: Cave/Manson 70; Chanticleer 70 ¶ Condition: Externally excellent with just some minor shelfwear to the corners. Free endpapers lightly browned. Fore edge of pages with light age tanning. Otherwise bright and clean. A clean, near fine copy. ¶
Seller: Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Softcover. This scarce eight page publication from the press includes specimen pages from: The Four Gospels (with an engraving by Eric Gill and displaying for the first time their new 18 point type); Paradise Lost (with an engraving never used, by Robert Gibbings who is announced a the illustrator, though he only engraved the title page); and Canterbury Tales (engraved by Gill). There are also announcements for My One Hundredth Tale (published as The Hundredth Story); Maya; A Journey from the World to the Next; and Lucina sine Concubitu. With three engravings specially cut by Eric Ravilious. Printed on Kelmscott white laid hand-made paper with a watermark designed by Gill with white wove hand-made paper covers. Creasing and light browning to covers; Interior pages have light creasing to right margins otherwise fine. Loosely inserted are an announcement for an exhibition of art by Robert Gibbings, and a one sheet folded in two describing The Four Gospels and stating that the book will be ready in November. Publication measures 9.25 x 12.75 inches. [Cock-a-Hoop XXXII, p. 71-72]. PRI/040323.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.