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[Prospectuses for 1944 publications by the Golden Cockerel Press with wood engravings by John Buckland-Wright and others]
[Prospectuses for 1944 publications by the Golden Cockerel Press with wood engravings by John Buckland-Wright and others] Per Ardua Ad Victoriam. After Five Years of War the Golden Cockerel is Still Alive & Pecking: He Offers the War-Weary for the Refreshment Some Tasty Pickings
6 prospectuses (each 2pp-4pp) in beige wrappers, 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8").
Prospectuses for the Golden Cockerel Press, founded in 1922 and run by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter. With engravings by John Buckland-Wright (who illustrated seventeen books for the press) and others. The books advertised are Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine', Napoleon's memoirs, volumes of correspondence between the Shelleys, T.J. Hogg and others, and Anders Sparrman's 'A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution'.
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