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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

De Chair ( Somerset)

JULIUS CAESAR’S COMMENTARIES

Published: The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1951

Edition: Limited edition

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A modern rendering

Engravings by Clifford Webb

Limited edition: 312 pages, frontispiece, title page vignette, maps as end papers, quarter tan cloth with blue cloth boards a little dull, gilt vignette on the upper cover, titled gilt on the spine, fore edge and bottom edge uncut, a good copy.

The limitation reads: Designed produced and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London. Composition and presswork by R.& R. Clark ltd., Edinburgh. The edition is limited to 320 numbered copis printed in Baskerville type on Arnold’s mould made paper. Nos 1 – 70 are specially bound, No 106.

On the front free end paper opposite the limitation: This volume is dedicated by the editor to Winston Churchill, who also had difficulties to surmount.

Franklin (Colin) The private presses. Second ed. Scholar Press, 1991 page 304

  • Overall Condition: A good copy
  • Size: 4to (290 x 220mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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