Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
DRYDEN JOHN. SONGS AND POEMS OF JOHN DRYDEN. THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, 1957.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Description: CHOSEN AND INTRODUCED BY GWYN JONES. DRAWINGS IN FULL COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE BY LAVINIA BLYTHE. ONE OF 500 COPIES, DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED BY CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD, THIS BEING NUMBER 153. FOLIO, BOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER GREY CLOTH. A VERY NICE COPY FROM NEWCASTLE LIBRARY, WITH A STAMP ON THE REVERSE OF THE TITLE PAGE, AN ACCESSION NUMBER ON THE SPINE AND THE SMALL REMAINS OF A LABLE ON THE FEP.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Dryden, John. Songs and Poems of John Dryden. Golden Cockerel Press, 1957.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardback, half-morocco, marbled fabric covered boards. 42 x 28.5cm. 64pp plus 8 full page plates by Lavinia Blythe. Text chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones. Limited edition of 500, this copy un-numbered. A lovely copy.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 64 pages + plates. In the original binding - cloth covered boards and leather spine. Cloth has mottling to it. Some soiling and marks also. A few light marks here and there in the text. Numbered 126 of the 500 printed. A large and heavy book, extra postage will be required to send outside the UK.
Seller: Stephen Rench, Shipston on Stour, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Songs and poems of John Dryden Chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones", with drawings by Lavinia Blythe. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1957 limited edition of 500 copies, this copy is unnumbered. with 8 full page colour illustrations by Blythe. Book in very good condition.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Dryden, John. Songs and Poems of John Dryden. Golden Cockerel Press, 1957.
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones. Drawings by Lavinia Blythe. Grey cloth boards, brown morocco spine.Covers slightly faded, else near fine.One of 500 numbered copies.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 500, this copy unnumbered and inscribed 'out of series' in pencil to the limitation page. Folio. Full red morocco with five raised bands to the spine, ruled in gilt and with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Matching red marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 8 full page colour plates and numerous black and white drawings by Lavinia Blythe (pseudonym of Leslie Blanche). A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and the odd minor scuff to the boards. The contents are clean and bright throughout and remain free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. An attractive example. A sumptuous edition of Dryden's poems, wonderfully illustrated by Lavinia Blythe in a style reminicent of Rex Whistler, with whom she had been a fellow student at the Royal College of Art, and printed in Eric Gill's Golden Cockerel type at The Chiswick Press. As the publisher, Christopher Sandford, recalled: "Dryden, I felt, merited a Golden Cockerel edition, and a glorious one.[it] was for me a most satisfying book, maybe my best, and one I would be happy to be remembered by" (Cock-A-Hoop, p.41). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom