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London [Cambridge]: Clover Hill Editions [Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press], 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Jones, David. One of 250 copies, folio size, 45 pp., with dust jacket. From the web site of PB Press Books: "The 'Chester Mystery Plays' is a cycle of mystery plays originating in the city of Chester, England and dating back to at least the early part of the 15th century ('Chester Mystery Plays')....The plays are based on biblical texts, from creation to the Last Judgement. They were enacted by common guildsmen and craftsmen on mounted stages that were moved around the city streets, with each company or guild performing one play." This book presents ten stunning wood engravings by David Jones (1895-1974), who was both a writer and an artist. As a writer, he was one of the first-generation British modernist poets and was highly regarded by both T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. As an artist, he learned wood and copper engraving from Eric Gill, providing… Read More

London: Clover Hill Editions, 1977.. Limited edition, no. 132 of 250 copies from a total edition of 337, folio, (x), 30, (6) pp. 10 wood engravings. Cloth backed marbled boards, d.w., spine slightly sunned. The engravings were originally made for a Golden Cockerel Press edition in 1927, but their reproduction was a disappointment to Jones. Towards the end of his life he agreed for this edition to be made from the original blocks, and although only 8 were found at the time the other two came to light after his death, just as printing was about to begin.

Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Hardback, original cloth. 32 x 25cm. 16pp, [1]. Number 237 of 275 copies. 10 large wood-engraved illustrations by David Jones. Boards stained. Nice provenance, this was the Robert Gibbings' copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. He is noted on the colophon was the printer of this book. First few prelim leaves with small portion of damp-staining to outer margin. So rather unpreposessing on the outside, but the plates are clean and unmarked. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Clover Hill Editions published by Douglas Cleverdon, 1977. 10 wood engravings by David Jones printed from the original blocks. No. XVI (16) of 80 special copies with a separate suite of all the engravings printed on japon. Printed on Barcham Green mould made paper by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in Gill’s Golden Cockerel type, title page printed in red and black. Sm. folio, original quarter niger with marbled paper covered boards and a niger label on the upper cover lettered in gilt, extra set of engravings loose in the original cloth portfolio, both housed in the original cloth slipcase with printed paper label to spine. An extremely good set||Originally the ten engravings were going to include two printed offset, however while the text was being prepared, the missing two blocks were unearthed in Wales so all the engravings were printed from Jones’s original blocks.The first printing of the blocks was in the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927. In this edition Robert… Read More

Published by Clover Hill Editions, London in 1977. Number 'XXX1' of only 80 special copies, printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on Barcham Green handmade paper, watermarked 'Clover Hill' (made for Douglas Cleverdon in 1936). The BOOK is in Fine condition, bound in quarter-morocco and marbled boards. Illustrated with ten wood engravings by David Jones, this title is considered by many to be the artist's most significant work. These engravings were initially printed in the Golden Cockerel edition in 1927. Jones, however, felt that the some of the delicacy of his wood engravings had been lost, as the paper was not properly dampened by the Press as they hurried to meet a deadline. According to the Publisher's Note by Douglas Cleverdon, Jones acquired the ten blocks in order to ensure that they would not be reprinted without his approval. In 1977, Jones agreed to 'Clover Hill Editions' reprinting the book using his original blocks, in the manner that he originally intended. In this present… Read More

Waltham, St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927 [and] London: Clover Hill Editions, 1977. 2 vols. plus extra material: 4to, iv, 16, (1, colophon) pp. With 10 large wood engravings by David Jones. Original red buckram, pale blue dust-jacket partially faded to almost white as usual, with a second unfaded dust-jacket also present; both with David Jones wood engraving on upper panel. A very fine copy. [and] 4to, ix, 30, (5) pp. With 10 large wood engravings by David Jones. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, orange dust-jacket, as new with three prospectuses (one limited to 50 copies) and the extra suite of prints on Japon limited to 25 sets (see below). § A fascinating pair of copies of this very rare and important book, considered to be Jones’s most important work and one of the great books of both presses. The first edition was limited to 275 copies on English handmade paper. With this copy comes a full-page typed letter from Robert Gibbings to the purchaser Henry Bergen dated Dec. 31st… Read More