. The Birth of Christ from the Gospel According to Saint Luke. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR NOEL ROOKE TO MARGARET ROOKE on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1925 1st thus, #267 0F 370 COPIES ISSUED BY ROBERT GIBBINGS AT HIS FORMIDABLE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS OF WALTHAM SAINT LAWRENCE, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND. Tight and VG to VG+ in its 1/4 morocco over light-blue boards, with just a touch of light wear at the spine ends and very minor, confined soiling along the rear panel's top-edge. First-rate woodcuts by Noel Rooke, the frontispiece in rich red and black. A lovely edition, "the text taken from Barker's quarto edition of the Authorized Version of 1612"

Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.