Golden Cockerel Press.- Pervigilium Veneris: The Vigil of Venus, translated by F.L.Lucas, number 3 of 100 copies, double-page pictorial title in Latin and English (with 4 engravings) and 12 head-pieces & 2 tail-pieces by John Buckland Wright all copper engravings with aquatint, text in Latin and English on facing pages, original citron morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with frieze of cockerel running along top and bottom of boards in brown, uncut, spine very slightly browned, buckram slip-case (stained), [Pertelote 141; Reid A33a], 4to, Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. ⁂ "The very fine engravings, by a process revived for the first time in our generation and which took two years to produce, were inspired by the Roman sarcophagi in the Louvre." Christopher Sandford in Pertelote. "This is what I call a perfect print. The tone is sufficient and not too even. The lines have their full value and have slight tone or aureal round them, which will go on improving with age. It is of course greatly helped by the type of paper used, the ink, and the slight 'burr' left on the lines...This plate was printed cold, rag-wiped but not retroussé, and went once through the press..." John Buckland Wright quoted in Pertelote.
Golden Cockerel Press.- Pervigilium Veneris: The Vigil of Venus, translated by F.L.Lucas, number 3 of 100 copies, double-page pictorial title in Latin and English (with 4 engravings) and 12 head-pieces & 2 tail-pieces by John Buckland Wright all copper engravings with aquatint, text in Latin and English on facing pages, original citron morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with frieze of cockerel running along top and bottom of boards in brown, uncut, spine very slightly browned, buckram slip-case (stained), [Pertelote 141; Reid A33a], 4to, Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. ⁂ "The very fine engravings, by a process revived for the first time in our generation and which took two years to produce, were inspired by the Roman sarcophagi in the Louvre." Christopher Sandford in Pertelote. "This is what I call a perfect print. The tone is sufficient and not too even. The lines have their full value and have slight tone or aureal round them, which will go on improving with age. It is of course greatly helped by the type of paper used, the ink, and the slight 'burr' left on the lines...This plate was printed cold, rag-wiped but not retroussé, and went once through the press..." John Buckland Wright quoted in Pertelote.
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