Folio 4 pages on green wove paper. Then some panic stricken statesman got up in parliament and told the.

John Milton S Paradise Lost From Golden Cockerel Press Lettering

8 pages printed on unbleached arnold wove paper within yellow paper covers with border and vignette by john buckland wright on front and border and cockerel device by mark severin on back.

Golden cockerel press. With engraving by john buckland wright and paul nash in the text. The press was founded by harold hal midgley taylor 1893 1925 in 1920 and was first in waltham st lawrence in berkshire where he had unsuccessfully tried fruit farming. Make offer 1934 the lord s song eric gill golden cockerel press limited edition.

Golden cockerel press 1929 1931. 384 00 15 99 postage. 1343 1400 classic work replete with wood engravings.

Taylor bought an army surplus hut and assembled it in waltham st lawrence as a combined workshop and living quarters. Features on fine printing and. An astounding edition of geoffrey chaucer s c.

Four volumes complete no. Bee blackburn pran pyper and ethelwynne gay stewart mcdowall. He sought a loan from a friend hubert pike a director of bentley motors to buy the press.

Gibbings and the golden cockerel press. Title page with decoration and engraving by john farleigh page 2 is a long attack on cheap imitation press books page 3 is a prospectus on paradise lost page 4 contains a note on the return to general prosperity and details of 8 titles. 457 of 500 copies folio size 773 total pp with autumn 1927 and spring 1928 announcements serving as prospectus.

This was the first book printed by the golden cockerel press after its sale by gibbings to christopher sandford a sale prompted by the collapse in the fine book market described by gibbings himself thus in the introduction to the wood engravings of robert gibbings 1957. Golden cockerel press was a major english private press operating between 1920 and 1961. Taylor bought an army surplus hut and assembled it in waltham st lawrence as a combined workshop and living quarters.

The golden cockerel press was founded by harold hal midgley taylor 1893 1925 in 1920 but was set up as a cooperative with three other partners in addition to taylor. The golden cockerel press created some of the world s most exquisite handmade limited edition books during its 40 year existence but the four gospels was its finest achievement we have reproduced the rare original for your chance to own an exceptional piece of publishing history. 1934 the lord s song eric gill golden cockerel press limited edition.

48 00 24 95 postage. Golden cockerel press spring list 1950. Men and manners ltd ed signed havelock ellis shenstone golden cockerel press.

After taylor was no longer able to supervise the press due to suffering from tuberculosis it was sold to. The golden cockerel press was founded by harold hal midgley taylor 1893 1925 in 1920 and was first in waltham st lawrence in berkshire where he had unsuccessfully tried fruit farming. Gibbings was working on the wood engravings the lives of gallant ladies when hal taylor the owner of the press became very ill with tuberculosis and had to put it up for sale.

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