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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"), blue paper over boards in half brown cloth, leather stamped title-author. b&w woodcut illus. throughout. Previous owner bookplate on front and back paste-downs. 35 pp. CONDITION: Very good, cover lightly scratched and slightly faded on corners and worn at extremities, with light toning at front spine-edge. Number 210 of an edition of 450 copies. "This book, which is no. 25 of the Golden Cockerel Press publications, was crowned by the Double-Crown Club as being the best produced book of its price published during 1925" (Gill). First Golden Cockerel press book illustrated by Gill, brother of the author. REFERENCES: Gill 274; Chanticleer 25; Cave & Manson 25.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Enid Clay. Sonnets and Verses. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, 1925.
Price: US$367.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With eight engravings by Eric Gill. In original blue boards with cloth spine. Paper label solidly attached to spine with title and author. General wear to boards and some ageing and soiling to cloth spine. Complete with multiple endpapers at front and back. This book is number 218 of 450. No signatures. Sticker from old (maybe original) bookstore it was sold at. Interior is clean and clear with rough cut edges. Pages:(14) 35 (7) Dimensions:9 x 6â x â .
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Clay, Enid. Sonnets and Verses. Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, Great Britain, 1925.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: One-quarter tan cloth boards with blue covers; mounted title card on spine; 35 pp, uncut and untrimmed; richly illustrated with wood engravings by Eric Gill. This is a very rare copy of this poetry book by Enid Clay. It contains lovely illustrations (wood engravings) by Eric Gill. This is numbered 83 of 450 printed. VG (Boards show discoloration at the edges and shelfwear, and scratches; there is darkening to the spine and the label is age-toned; text block edges are foxed; text block shows extremely mild cockling at the edges; pages are lightly age-toned; there is a bit of glue visible at the bottom edge of the pages.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Original blue boards with linen spine, in a custom made clamshell box with lettering. in fine condition. Limited to 450 copies, of which this is no. 248. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Illustrated with 8 wood-engravings (Physick, 281-288) by Eric Gill. Evan Gill Bibliography, 274; Chanticleer, 69; Skelton, 150.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Gill, Eric. 134 of 450 copies. 8 wood engravings (3 full-page) by Eric Gill, cockerel device in gold on colophon. 35, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First book Gill did for the Press. Chanticleer 25; Physick 281-88; Gill 274; Cave & Manson 25 Cloth and boards, paper label, chipped, else very good 8 wood engravings (3 full-page) by Eric Gill, cockerel device in gold on colophon. 35, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Clay, Enid. SONNETS AND VERSES. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1925.
Price: US$501.91 + shipping
Description: Pp. [viii]+36(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), wood-engraved title page vignette and 7 illustrations by Eric Gill (3 full page); tall demy 8vo; qr. natural linen, printed paper title label on spine, blue/grey papered boards, slightly scuffed, edges and fore-corners chipped and lightly worn, the spine browned, title label chipped; upper hinge starting at head, the endpapers faintly soiled, a little light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1925. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Chanticleer 25; Gill 274. *Signed by the poet (dated August 19, 1925) on the upper free endpaper above the later bookplate of Janeta Gill - perhaps a relative? (Enid Clay was a sister of Eric Gill). From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label below the earlier bookplate of Scottish writer and literary agent Giles Alexander Esme Gordon (1940-2003).
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. ; CLAY Enid. Sonnets & Verses. , 1925.
Price: US$519.72 + shipping
Description: 8 wood engravings by Eric Gill, cockerel device printed in gold on colophon. One of a total edition of 450 copies. 8vo., a very good copy in the original cloth-backed blue boards, printed paper spine label, uncut. Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press A very good copy, with some very slight discoloration around the edges of the boards, some inoffensive glue stains where a bookplate has been removed.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
GILL Eric; CLAY Enid; MONROE Harold; GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. Sonnets & Verses. , 1925.
Price: US$538.97 + shipping
Description: Harold Monro's copy. No. 364 of 450 copies. 8 Wood engravings by Eric Gill, including title page. 15 x 23cm. Original publishers blue paper boards over quarter tan cloth, title in black on paper spine label, presentation bookplate of the Double Crown Club. Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press. With presentation bookplate of the Double Crown Club announcing that the book was 'awarded the crown for the year 1925' and presenting this copy as no. 23 of 42 copies issued to members of the club, Harold Monro's name written in ink and signed by Holbrook Jackson, president of the club, and Hubert Foss, secretary. Monro was founder and proprietor of the influential but ultimately unsuccessful Poetry Bookshop which published numerous books and pamphlets of poetry, often gaily decorated by some of the leading graphic artists of the day, such as Claude Lovat Fraser, John and Paul Nash and Edward McKnight Kauffer, although Gill only contributed to two of the bookshop's publications.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$609.55 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, number 439 of 450 copies, presentation copy, inscribed "To Miss H.M. Wade-Gery from Robert Gibbings. 14-10-25" on front free endpaper. Gibbings took over The Golden Cockerell Press in February 1924. This copy was presented to the sister of H. T. Wade-Gery, the classical scholar and author of the second book printed by the Press. This collection of poetry by Enid Clay, collects examples previously published in The English Review and the Observer. Gibbings had previously tried to involve Eric Gill in the work of The Golden Cockerell Press but the artist had refused as Gibbings was not a Catholic. When Gibbings sought to publish the work of Gill's sister, Enid, the artist commenced a long and productive relationship with the press. Chanticleer 25; Gill 274. Octavo. Original buff cloth-backed blue boards, paper spine label. Eight wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped, extremities slightly sunned; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
(Golden Cockerel Press.) CLAY (Enid). Sonnets and Verses.. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.
Price: US$705.80 + shipping
Description: 274/450 COPIES printed on Kelmscott handmade paper, title-vignette and 7 other wood-engravings by Eric Gill, gilt cockerel press-device, pp. [v], 35, crown 8vo, original quarter natural linen and blue boards, backstrip darkened with printed label slightly nicked at edges, edges untrimmed, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Henry Simpson, with all good wishes from Enid Clay'. The recipient was a banker and poet, founder of the Poets' Club in 1908. Clay was Eric Gill's sister, and this is the first of the Press's books to be illustrated by him. (Chanticleer 25: Gill, Corey & Mackenzie 274)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The sole UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire in 1925. Number '22' of only 450 copies issued. The BOOK is in Fine condition. The book has been rebound by James Brockman in full black morocco, with two raised bands, gilt titling and ruling, and marbled end-papers. A James Brockman Bindery sticker to the upper verso of the front end-paper. Eight wood engravings (3 full-page) by Eric Gill, and the cockerel device in gold on the colophon. The first book Eric Gill illustrated for the Cockerel Press (Chanticleer 25; Physick 281-88). James Brockman set up his own bindery in Oxford in 1976. From 1982 1983 he was the University of Wales Arts Fellow at The Gregynog Press and Bindery. From 1985-87 he was the President of Designer Bookbinders, and then 2001-05 he was the President of The Society of Bookbinders. In 1999 he was awarded accreditation by The Institute of Paper Conservators. James has written many articles on bookbinding technique and has given numerous lectures and workshops in Britain, Europe, the USA and Australia. James' previous works include commissions for The British Library and The Victoria and Albert Museum and has bindings in private and national collections worldwide. An extremely handsome production. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcome direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Clay, Enid. Sonnets and Verses. Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1925.
Price: US$925.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A collection of poems by Enid Clay, accompanied by 8 b/w wood engravings by Eric Gill. This was the first book published by the Golden Cockerel Press that was illustrated by Eric Gill, who would later go on to create the Golden Cockerel typeface for the press in 1931. Paper is hand-made and watermarked. Fore-edge and foot of text block deckled. In quarter cloth binding, title on spine. Minor browning on front and back free endpapers, as well as the bottom edge of the last few pages. Otherwise contents clean and bright. High quality paper used. Limited to 450 copies, of which this is hand-numbered 291. First edition.
Seller: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB), Tokyo, Japan
ERIC GILL. Lovers on a Bank Signed and numbered.. Self Published, 1925.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eric Gill wood engraving signed and numbered 15 of an edition of 25 copies. Printed on fine japon the sheet is hinged at the top margin with fine japon paper. A light fox mark in image-please examine carefully. Mounted. Image size 4.6 x 7.4cm (1.75 x 3 inches) Sheet size 8 x 13cm (3 x 5 inches) Felix Dennis (1949-2014) Collection: Felix Dennis was an English publisher, poet, spoken-word performer and philanthropist. His company, Dennis Publishing, pioneered computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the United Kingdom. One of the three editors of Oz Magazine.Reference: Physick 288: Illustration on page 3 of Sonnets and Verses by Enid Clay, Number 25 of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Physick states That the edition was signed Eric G and the edition size was 25 copies.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom