Double-fold cream textured card, printed in brown within green rule and fleuron borders (title/Out Toast/Menu/Autographs); 20.3 cm. x 13.1 cm. (folded size); lightly soiled; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1956. Keain 725. More

With the preface by the author, an introduction for the modern reader by Jacques Barzun and hand-colored illustrations by Andre Dugo. Pp. xlvi+300+[2](colophon, verso blank), 10 plates and 9 text illustrations hand-coloured in the studio of Charlize Brakely, the half-title and title pages printed in blue & black; impl. 8vo;..... More

Pp. [vi]+18+[2](colophon, blank), 2 copper engraved plates, title page vignette; narrow post 8vo; red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, the cloth slightly faded, edges a trifle rubbed; uncut; dust wrapper, faintly marked, slightly creased and split at top edge, tiny faded spot to bottom edge of back panel, the backstrip..... More

With engravings on wood by the author. Pp. [ii]+16+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, plus 3 plates, title page vignette, cockerel device [by David Jones] on reverse of final plate; narrow med. octavo; scarlet buckram, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, boards a trifle bowed and faintly mottled, spine slightly faded; t.e.g...... More

Pp. [ii]+16+[2](colophon, blank), title page vignette plus 5 wood engravings by Eric Gill (2 full page), the title and 6 large initials printed in red; cr. 4to; cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt; uncut; dust wrapper, repeating the title page vignette at centre of upper panel, lightly foxed and browned..... More

Foreword & Notes by the Partners [Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter]. Illustrations from the books. Pp. 52, frontispiece, pictorial title page, and numerous text illustrations; med. 8vo; light blue/grey cloth, spine and upper board lettered in red, corners slightly bruised; upper pastedown very faintly foxed; The Golden Cockerel Press, London..... More

Pp. [16], stapled (staples removed, light rust marks at centre): full page engraving by Eric Ravilious, adapted from the 1933 prospectus, including specimen pages from 'Ecclesiastes' (wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton), 'Glory of Life' (2 wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings), 'The Journal of James Morrison', 'Cosmetics for My Lady', 'The Garden of..... More

Pp. [4], cover; 34x24cm; green wove paper, edges lightly faded and browned, with horizontal crease at centre, top fore-corners slightly creased, upper cover features an enlargement of an engraving by John Farleigh (previously used on the back of Cock-a-Hoop XXIV). Loose inserts: i. Prospectus for The Book of Days: [4..... More

A Pleasant Myth together with Some Notes on the Golden Cockerel private press books and A List of new and second-hand books in stock at the Press 1939. Pp [32]; small cr. 8vo; yellow paper wrappers, stapled, (staples rusted, wrappers lightly soiled and foxed), with specially engraved cover design (Aphrodite..... More

Single leaf [2] pp.; cr. 4to; Luxor antique cream laid paper, a trifle soiled, with fold at centre; Contents: cockerel C1R [engraved by Robert Gibbings] before title and at colophon; reviews of four related titles: Men in Print, Secret Despatches from Arabia, and Crusader Castles, all by T. E. Lawrence..... More

Pp. [8], stapled, device on front (girl on flying cockerel), specially engraved by John Buckland-Wright, also includes an historical note on the Press; 19 cm. x 12.7 cm.; cream laid paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1946. Cock-a-Hoop LXXVIII. *Without identification of Australian representative Walter Standish & Sons, but with..... More

Pp. [2], broadsheet, with cockerels facing right and left, reduced from an engraving by Mark Severin, lists eleven books in stock; 18.8 cm. x 12.7 cm.; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948. Cock-a-Hoop LXXXI.iv. More

Pp. [2], broadsheet; cockerel on front by Mark Severin (as used at the head of LXXI, but full size), lists nine books in stock; 21.3 cm. x 11.3 cm.; white laid paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, n.d.[1949]. Cock-a-Hoop LXXXIII. More