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Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. First Edition, Limited to 105 copies bound in alum-tanned sheepskin of which this is no. 47. Quarto; publisher's full cream pictorial sheep, front cover embossed in gilt, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, binder's stamp "Bound by S&S, London" [Sangorski and Sutcliffe] on bottom turn-in of front board, top edge gilt, in original marbled cloth slipcase; 127pp.; color frontispiece, two-toned illus. throughout, many full-paged. Leather rather toned at extremities and spine as is often the case, brief soil to rear cover, light fraying to slipcase, else a Very Good example, internally clean and sound. Accompanied by an additional suite of eight plates of Flint's illustrations, loose as issued. Signed by the illustrator on colophon in rear. Splendid edition of the 17th-century author's risqué poetry with illustrations to match. The illustrations were reproduced by color-collotype at the Chiswick Press while the type was set at the Baynard Press for subscribers of the Golden Cockerel Press.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Herrick, Robert. ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN POEMS. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1955.
Price: US$1334.02 + shipping
Description: Selected, arranged & illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint. Pp. 128, the title and headings printed in blue, green or red, coloured frontispiece and title page vignette, plus 40 sepia illustrations (18 full page), black & white tailpiece decoration; impl. 8vo; white sheepskin, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, the upper board decorated with cockerel and initials in gilt, the boards a trifle foxed and faintly soiled, the spine slightly browned; t.e.g., others uncut; dentelles ruled in gilt; housed together with an extra 8 sepia plates in an envelope (which is slightly torn) within a marbled cloth slipcase, edges faded and a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1955. One of 105 numbered copies thus bound ((total edition 550), signed by the illustrator and with the extra plates. Cock-a-Hoop 199. *Printed at the artist's request. 'Indeed, the type was already set when he asked me to make it a Cockerel, and all the subsequent details of its production were exactly to his specification' [Cock-a-Hoop p. 33].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$1607.96 + shipping
Description: First Flint edition, signed limited issue, number 82 of 105 copies signed by the artist and in the deluxe sheepskin binding, together with the additional suite of eight sepia plates, here retained in the original envelope. There were also 445 copies bound in parchment and cloth boards. William Russell Flint not only illustrated the present edition, but selected and arranged the poems, and printed them at his own expense. He describes in his "Note on Herrick" how "every detail of this book's design is my own. with good spirit and good care I have made the drawings and placed them with their poems". The result is a very attractive production which brings out, in Flint's words, the "prettiness blossomed into beauty" of Herrick's poems. Quarto. Original white alum-tanned sheepskin, raised bands, titles and publisher's stamp to spine in gilt, decoration to front cover in gilt, top edge gilt. With eight additional plates in the original envelope, as issued. Housed together in a custom marbled cloth slipcase. Colour frontispiece and title page vignette, and 38 sepia illustrations to the text. Text printed in red, green, blue, and black. Some toning to spine, binding otherwise bright; a lovely, near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Herrick, Robert. One Hundred and Eleven Poems. Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1955.
Price: US$2128.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto. 127pp. Of an edition of 550, this is one of 105 specially bound in white alum-tanned sheepskin and accompanied by eight extra plates. Signed by the illustrator at colophon. Richly illustrated with color-collotype reproductions of Flint's watercolor paintings and crayon drawings of women in various scenes of repose. Flint's illustrations highlight Herrick's poems' characteristic insistence that life is beautiful, though short, and, in Herrick's own words, one ought to "gather ye rosebuds while ye may". Spine tanned with rubbing to bands. Sleeve that houses extra plates tatty at opening, but all plates pristine. All housed in marbled cloth-covered slipcase, which shows general wear. T.e.g. Prospectus laid in.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.