Lot 234
Golden Cockerel Press.- Dryden (John) Songs and Poems, one of 100 specially bound copies with an additional suite of plates, original pictorial two-tone morocco, gilt, 1957
Hammer Price: £260
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Dryden (John) Songs and Poems, edited by Gwyn Jones, number 41 of 100 specially-bound copies with an additional suite of plates, from an edition limited to 500, illustrations by Lavinia Blythe (Lesley Blanch), some colour and full-page, bookplate of Marie-Louise and Samuel Rosenthal, original pictorial two-tone morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., slightly spotted, spine a little faded and stained, additional plates loose in envelope (some with light marginal water-stain), together in cloth slip-case (slightly stained), [Cock-a-Hoop 206], folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1957.
⁂ Blanch used a pseudonym as her style had changed so much since she had executed the watercolours before the war, for a projected but unpublished Dryden by the Chiswick Press.
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Dryden (John) Songs and Poems, edited by Gwyn Jones, number 41 of 100 specially-bound copies with an additional suite of plates, from an edition limited to 500, illustrations by Lavinia Blythe (Lesley Blanch), some colour and full-page, bookplate of Marie-Louise and Samuel Rosenthal, original pictorial two-tone morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., slightly spotted, spine a little faded and stained, additional plates loose in envelope (some with light marginal water-stain), together in cloth slip-case (slightly stained), [Cock-a-Hoop 206], folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1957.
⁂ Blanch used a pseudonym as her style had changed so much since she had executed the watercolours before the war, for a projected but unpublished Dryden by the Chiswick Press.
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