ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN POEMS.
Selected, arranged & illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint. Pp. 128, the title and headings printed in blue, green or red, coloured frontispiece and title page vignette, plus 40 sepia illustrations (18 full page), black & white tailpiece decoration; impl. 8vo; white sheepskin, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, the upper board decorated with cockerel and initials in gilt, the boards a trifle foxed and faintly soiled, the spine slightly browned; t.e.g., others uncut; dentelles ruled in gilt; housed together with an extra 8 sepia plates in an envelope (which is slightly torn) within a marbled cloth slipcase, edges faded and a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1955. One of 105 numbered copies thus bound ((total edition 550), signed by the illustrator and with the extra plates. Cock-a-Hoop 199. *Printed at the artist's request. 'Indeed, the type was already set when he asked me to make it a Cockerel, and all the subsequent details of its production were exactly to his specification' [Cock-a-Hoop p. 33]. Item #162910
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