Verlag: London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1950., 1950
Anbieter: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, Berlin, Deutschland
8°. 40 S. mit |6 Orig.-Kupferstichen|. Zweifarbiges Orig.-Leinen (dunkelblau/gelb) mit goldgepr. RTitel und goldgepr. Stierkopf-Darstellung am VDeckel. Kopfgoldschnitt. Eins von 500 numerierten Exemplaren für Subskribenten, gedruckt in der Bembo type auf Bütten. Von den 6 eleganten Kupferstichen Buckland-Wrights sind 4 ganzseitig auf Tafeln und 2 im Text. Einband leicht berieben und minimal fleckig. Innen gutes und sauberes, insgesamt wirklich schönes Exemplar. ----------------------- Swinburne, A. C. [Ill. John Buckland-Wright] Pasiphaë. Poem by A. C. Swinburne. London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. 8vo. 40 pp. with 6 original copper engravings. Blue and yellow buckrams with gilt title and gilt bull's head illustration on front cover. top edge gilt. One of 500 numbered copies for subscribers, printed in Bembo type on laid paper. Of the 6 elegant copper engravings by Buckland-Wright 4 are full-page on plates and 2 in the text. Binding slightly rubbed and minimally stained. Internally a good and clean, overall really nice copy.
Leather. Zustand: FINE. 712 pp. 10? x 6?? Copy number 1069 of an edition limited to 1750. Printed by St Edmundsbury Press and finely bound in red Nigerian 'Wassa' goatskin by Real Lachenmaier in Germany. Gilt and navy blue blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols. Green morroco spine label, top edge gilt, ribbon marker. Presented in a green solander box, together with a booklet ?The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron? by selected writers. Set in Poliphilus. Entirely clean and sharp with no evidence of life outside the box.