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Auction archive: Lot number 33

JONES, Gwyn. The Green Island. Engravings by John Petts, [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1946, 8°, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 19 of 100 specially bound copies, titles printed in green and black, wood-engraved illustrations, green ...

Auction 15.07.1994
15 Jul 1994
Estimate
£240 - £360
ca. US$370 - US$556
Price realised:
£264
ca. US$408
Auction archive: Lot number 33

JONES, Gwyn. The Green Island. Engravings by John Petts, [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1946, 8°, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 19 of 100 specially bound copies, titles printed in green and black, wood-engraved illustrations, green ...

Auction 15.07.1994
15 Jul 1994
Estimate
£240 - £360
ca. US$370 - US$556
Price realised:
£264
ca. US$408
Beschreibung:

JONES, Gwyn. The Green Island. Engravings by John Petts [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1946, 8°, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 19 of 100 specially bound copies, titles printed in green and black, wood-engraved illustrations, green and grey morocco with gilt cockerel stamped on upper cover (spine faded), slipcase [Cockalorum 169] -- OVID. The Amores. Newly translated by E. Powys Mathers. With five engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur, Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, [1932], 8°, number 277 of 350 copies, copper-engraved plates, original half morocco [Chanticleer 80] -- Lucius APULEIUS. The xi Bookes of the Golden Asse, translated by William Adlington, [Waltham Saint Lawrence]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1923, small 4°, number 265 of 450 copies on Van Gelder paper, printed in blue and black, brick-red half morocco, spine gilt. [Chanticleer 15] (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 33
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jul 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

JONES, Gwyn. The Green Island. Engravings by John Petts [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1946, 8°, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 19 of 100 specially bound copies, titles printed in green and black, wood-engraved illustrations, green and grey morocco with gilt cockerel stamped on upper cover (spine faded), slipcase [Cockalorum 169] -- OVID. The Amores. Newly translated by E. Powys Mathers. With five engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur, Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, [1932], 8°, number 277 of 350 copies, copper-engraved plates, original half morocco [Chanticleer 80] -- Lucius APULEIUS. The xi Bookes of the Golden Asse, translated by William Adlington, [Waltham Saint Lawrence]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1923, small 4°, number 265 of 450 copies on Van Gelder paper, printed in blue and black, brick-red half morocco, spine gilt. [Chanticleer 15] (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 33
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jul 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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