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London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Quarter cloth with decorative patterned boards. Gilt title and Golden Cockerel emblem on spine. Wood engraved frontispiece, title page and 9 engravings by John Buckland Wright of which 4 full-page. Printed on mould-made paper. The book was designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandiford for the Golden Cockerel Press. Number 699 of a limited edition of 750 copies. 28 pp., 25,6 x 16,7 cm. Small bookseller ticket on pastedown. Slightest wear to spine ends, else fine. A very collectible copy. .

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, number 122 out of 750 produced. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 27; [10]. Publisher's maroon cloth quarter bound with marbled boards, with original glassine jacket. In-text and full page engravings throughout. Some toning to spine, some tearing to glassim jacket. Fine. This book was published by the Golden Cockerel Press and has their recognisable wood engravings and attractive binding; this edition was a limited print run produced by the publisher and is number 122 out of 750 (this is recorded in black ink to page 30). The alluring Venus figure, captured in Buckland-Wright's engravings, depicts the powerful nature of passion and simultaneously presents the spiritual agonies of the knight.

[London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Buckland-Wright, John. One of 750 copies, quarto size, 30 pp., with prospectus. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a part of the Pre-Raphaelite circle which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, at times with a "medievalising strain" inspired by Edward Burne-Jones; at one point Swinburne met William Morris which may have had an additional influence on his work. In this work Swinburne "explores the relationship between the femme fatale and the tragic lover"; speaking through the figure of the Knight, who is "doomed to live forever in the Venus mountain, with his goddess-love: the tragic aspect of the legend comes from the knight's belief that he has lost God's grace; thus although he gains his love, he conceives of this as a sin" (n.b., above info from Wiki and an article by Siobhan Lam, Brown University, 2006, on "The Victorian Web"). With lovely wood engravings by John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954), who was born in… Read More

1948. Original prospectus with two wood engraving by John Buckland Wright in this case with both, on recto and verso, signed in pencil. 10 x 16.7 cms, mounted and framed.||The prospectus for the Golden Cockerel Press’s Laus Veneris for which John Buckland Wright provided 12 sensual wood engravings. The energetic passion of Swinburne’s Laus Veneris found its match in the Buckland Wright’s elegantly erotic engravings.| Two signed wood engravings by JBW on the original prospectus