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Auction #116 begins on 11 Jul 2024

Lord Dunsany:

LORD ADRIAN: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS (Golden Cockerel Press)

Engravings by Robert Gibbings. Printed and made in Great Britain by the Golden Cockerel Press at Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire

Published: Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1933

Edition: Limited edition

Reserve: $75

Approximately:

Estimate: $100/125

Bidding opens: 11 Jul 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 18 Jul 16:30 GMT

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74 pages and a colophon leaf, set in Golden Cockerel Press type and bound in blue patterned cloth sides, red leather spine gilt-lettered in 6 lines, top edge gilt, others uncut, 7 wood engravings by Gibbings, with the bookseller's ticket of B.H. Blackwell, Ltd. Oxford on the front paste-down endpaper. The cloth sides are lightly aged around the edges, a very good copy.

The colophon reads: This book was printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, by Robert and Moira Bibbings, assisted by George Churchill, and completed on the 3rd of February, 1933. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper.

The edition is limited to 325 copies, of which this is Number 25.

This is the last of the Golden Cockerel Press books produced by Gibbings at Waltham Saint Lawrence before the Press was sold to Christopher Sandford and moved to London.

  • Overall Condition: A very good copy
  • Size: 8vo (245 x 160 mm)


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