Price: £550
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1925
Stock Number: 73837
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: 274/450 COPIES printed on Kelmscott handmade paper, title-vignette and 7 other wood-engravings by Eric Gill, gilt cockerel press-device, pp. [v], 35, crown 8vo, original quarter natural linen and blue boards, backstrip darkened with printed label slightly nicked at edges, edges untrimmed, very good
Publication Details: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925
Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Henry Simpson, with all good wishes from Enid Clay'. The recipient was a banker and poet, founder of the Poets' Club in 1908.Clay was Eric Gill's sister, and this is the first of the Press's books to be illustrated by him.
Bibliography: (Chanticleer 25: Gill, Corey & Mackenzie 274)
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