Beschreibung:

Golden Cockerel Press. Fourteen Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbings from Drawings made on Orient Line Cruises, Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1932, 14 full-page and 2 smaller engravings, versos blank, uncut, original sewn pale yellow wrappers with printed title to upper wrapper and ownership sticker of Stanley Scott to inside rear wrappers, covers heavily dust-soiled and a few marginal nicks, slim folio, together with: Golden Cockerel Press, A Ballad upon a Wedding by Sir John Suckling, with Engravings by Eric Ravilious, 1927, wood engravings to text, partly uncut, original buckram-backed batik boards, slightly rubbed and dust-soiled, 8vo, (limited edition, 64/375 copies), plus Ravilious (Eric, illustrator), Desert, A Legend, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1926, wood-engraved frontispiece and text illustrations and designs, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original green buckram gilt (a little browned at spine tips) in pictorial dust jacket, some soiling, browning and chipping with loss at head of spine and corner tips, 8vo, (limited edition, 55/100 copies, signed by the author), plus a standard edition of the same, plus 3 others of Ravilious interest and 3 titles in the 'Love Songs' series published at the Cupid Press, 1949/1955, 2 with illustrations by Rex Whistler and one with illustrations by John Piper all original buckram-backed marbled boards with title labels to spine in glassine dust jackets, 8vo, (each one of 660 numbered copies, the one by Piper signed by him) (Quantity: 10)