Author additional ss: Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. / Work Type: private press books (publishing)

1. The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

Creator:: Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593–1649
Date:: MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Physical Description:: 196, [4] pages : maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The book of Jonah taken from the authorized version of King James I / with engravings on wood by David Jones.

Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: 15, [2] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Sonnets : with folk songs from the Spanish / by Havelock Ellis.

Creator:: Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], vii-xiv, [2], 81, [2] pages : 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ : according to the Authorized version of King James I : with decorations by Eric Gill.

Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: 268 p. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Maya / a play by Simon Gantillon ; paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon ; with XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton.

Creator:: Gantillon, Simon, 1890–
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: viii, 93, [4] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Chester play of the deluge / edited by J. Isaacs ; with engravings on wood by David Jones.

Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: iv, 16, [2] p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Lucretia Borgia : the chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei : Renaissance period / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; commentary and notes by Randolph Hughes ; engravings by Reynolds Stone.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1942
Physical Description:: [4], 7-191, [2], 16-17, [3] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Count Stefan / by A.E. Coppard.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: [12], 56, [4] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a prose translation / with an introductory essay by Gwyn Jones ; with six engravings in colour by Dorothea Braby.

Date:: 1952
Physical Description:: [4], 95 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Minxes admonished, or, Beauty reproved : an album of deplorable caprices / faithfully narrated & modestly embellished by William Russell Flint

Creator:: Flint, W. Russell (William Russell), Sir, 1880–1969
Date:: MCMLV [1955]
Physical Description:: [13],16-123, [5] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Mr. Glasspoole and the Chinese pirates / being the narrative of Mr. Richard Glasspoole of the ship Marquis of Ely ; describing his captivity of eleven weeks and three days whilst held for ransom by the villainous ladrones of the China Sea in the year 1809 ; together with extracts from the China records and log of the Marquis of Ely ; and some remarks on Chinese pirates, ancient and modern, by Owen Rutter ; and four engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Glasspoole, Richard, 1788–1846
Date:: MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:: 57, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Masques & poems / by Peter Quennell.

Creator:: Quennell, Peter, 1905–1993
Date:: [1922]
Physical Description:: 53, [3] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The hundredth story of A.E. Coppard / with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:: [4], 57, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A voyage round the world with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution / by Anders Sparrman ; introduction & notes by Owen Rutter ; wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Creator:: Sparrman, Anders, 1748–1820
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 218, [2] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, maps, music ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Together and alone : two short novels / by Christopher Whitfield ; with engravings by John O'Connor.

Creator:: Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:: 1945
Physical Description:: [2], 5-109, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Roses of Sharon : poems chosen from the flower of ancient Hebrew literature / with an introduction, by W.O.E. Oesterley, D.D. ; 12 wood-engravings by Mary Groom.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 58, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [1], 4-67, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Creator:: Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Caesar, Julius
Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: 311, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A rapture / by Thomas Carew ; with engravings by J.E. Laboureur.

Creator:: Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A sentimental journey through France and Italy / by Laurence Sterne ; with six engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

Creator:: Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: 151, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. An apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews / by Henry Fielding? ; with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson.

Creator:: Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], x, [2], 80, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement of Sydney cove / compiled from the original documents in the Public Record office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an introduction and notes, by Owen Rutter ; forward by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales ; five engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The serpent's presence / by Eurof Walters ; with eight wood-engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Walters, Eurof
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: 105, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Lady from yesterday / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

Creator:: Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 70, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Cosmetics for my lady & good fare for my lord : collected recipes.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [6], 5-75, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The puppet show / by Martin Armstrong.

Creator:: Armstrong, Martin, 1882–1974
Date:: MCMXXII [1922]
Physical Description:: [7], 10-153, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Maxims and considerations of Chamfort / translated, with an introduction, by E. Powys Mathers.

Creator:: Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, 1740?-1794
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Men in print : essays in literary criticism / by T.E. Lawrence ; introduction by A.W. Lawrence.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: [6], 9-58, [2] pages, [1] leaf, [3] leaves of plates ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The book of days of Llewelyn Powys : thoughts from his philosophy / selected by John Wallis ; printed, with an introduction by Llewelyn Powys and twelve etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, at the Golden Cockerel Press.

Creator:: Powys, Llewelyn, 1884–1939
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [4], 7-85, [3] pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The journal of James Morrison : boatswain's mate of the Bounty, describing the mutiny & subsequent misfortunes of the mutineers : together with an account of the island of Tahiti / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and five engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Morrison, James, 1761–1807
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: 242, [4] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Storm at sea / by Jack Lindsay & wood-engravings by John Farleigh.

Creator:: Lindsay, Jack, 1900–1990
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: 75, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The golden carpet / by Somerset De Chair.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion / a new translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones ; with illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: [2], 266, [2] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A croppe of kisses : selected lyrics of Ben Jonson / chosen, with an appreciation, by John Wallis.

Creator:: Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 48, [4] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Daphnis & Chloe : a most sweet, and pleasant pastorall romance for young ladies / translated out of the Greek of Longus, by Geo. Thornley, gent.

Creator:: Longus
Date:: mcmxxiij [1923, that is 1930]
Physical Description:: 108, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The story of a lifetime / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: 93, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

Creator:: Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The birth of Christ : from the Gospel according to Saint Luke.

Date:: 1925
Physical Description:: [5], 10-43, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Hymn to Proserpine / by Algernon Charles Swinburne; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 9, [3] pages: illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A pilgrim in Arabia / H. St. J.B. Philby.

Creator:: Philby, H. St. J. B. (Harry St. John Bridger), 1885–1960
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 191, [8] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Songs and poems of John Dryden / chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones ; drawings by Lavinia Blythe.

Creator:: Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:: 1957
Physical Description:: [2], 64 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Mr. Chambers and Persephone : a tale / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby.

Creator:: Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 62, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Chanticleer : bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, April 1921-1936 August ; introduction by Humbert Wolfe ; foreword & notes by the partners ; illustrations from the books.

Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: [10], 13-47, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The xi bookes of The golden asse : containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, interlaced with sundry pleasant & delectable tales : with an excellent narration of the marriage of Cupid & Psyches, set out in the iiij, v, & the vi bookes / translated out of Latine into English by William Aldington.

Creator:: Apuleius
Date:: mcmxxiij [1923]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-250, [6] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The ladies' pocket book of etiquette / by A. F. (1838) ; with engravings by Hester Sainsbury.

Creator:: Freeling, Arthur
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: [10], 55, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Salambo / Gustave Flaubert ; translated by E. Powys Mathers ; decorated with engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821–1880
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: [4], 317, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Religio medici / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician, of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: [1], 4-81, [9] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Sermons by artists / Paul Nash, David Low, Robert Gibbings [and others] ...

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 79, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Shaw-Ede : T. E. Lawrence's letters to H.S. Ede, 1927-1935 / foreword and running commentary by H.S. Ede.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1942
Physical Description:: [2], 5-62, [10] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

Creator:: Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868–1926
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 50, [2] pages ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; with 15 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

Creator:: Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:: 1929-1930
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The golden bed of Kydno / translated from the modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris by P.M. & illustrated with twelve line-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

Creator:: Lascaris, Evadne
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: [2], 7-41, [5] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The Ephesian story / by Xenophon of Ephesus ; translated from the Greek by Paul Turner ; with illustrations by Eric Fraser.

Creator:: Xenophon, of Ephesus
Date:: 1957
Physical Description:: 61, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 91, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The white llama : being La venganza del condor of V.G. Calderon / now translated into English for the first time by Richard Phibbs ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: García Calderón, Ventura, 1886–1959
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 123 pages, [1] : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The country of the blind : 1939 / by H.G. Wells ; with engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866–1946
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 67, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The constant mistress / by Enid Clay ; wth engravings by Eric Gill.

Creator:: Clay, Enid
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [6], 9-40, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : Edward Fitzgerald's translation reprinted from the first edition with his preface and notes ; drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

Creator:: Omar Khayyam
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Moncrif's Cats = Les chats de Francois Augustin Paradis de Moncrif / translated by Reginald Bretnor.

Creator:: Moncrif, M. de (François Augustin), 1687–1770
Date:: 1961
Physical Description:: 187 pages, [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The saga of Llywarch the Old / a reconstruction by Glyn Jones ; with the verse interludes translated by T.J. Morgan, D.Litt. ; and an introduction by Sir Ifor Williams, D.Litt., F.B.A.

Creator:: Jones, Glyn, 1905–1995
Date:: 1955
Physical Description:: [4], 7-38 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A journey from this world to the next / by Henry Fielding ; with six etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: 175, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Harriet & Mary : being the relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg, as shown in letters between them, now published for the first time / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

Creator:: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 84 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The Amazons : a novel / by Ivor Bannet ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Bannet, Ivor
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 252, [2] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Clothing without cloth : an essay on the nude / by Eric Gill O.S.D. ; with engravings on wood by the author.

Creator:: Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:: MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Woman in detail : a scientific survey / by Patrick Miller ; with drawings by Mark Severin.

Creator:: Miller, Patrick, 1885–1949
Date:: 1947
Physical Description:: 63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Zastrozzi : a romance / by Percy Bysshe Shelley ; with an introduction by Phyllis Hartnoll and engravings by Cecil Keeling.

Creator:: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Date:: 1955
Physical Description:: 131, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts / by Lemuel Gulliver ; first a surgeon, & then a captain of several ships.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The Psalter, or, Psalms of David : taken from the Book of common prayer.

Creator:: Church of England
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: [4], 126, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Id quod visum placet : a practical test of the beautiful. / by Eric Gill, T.O.S.D.

Creator:: Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: 19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Ana the runner : a treatise for princes & generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul / by Patrick Miller ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Miller, Patrick, 1885–1949
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 108, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Euphormio's Satyricon / by John Barclay ; translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner ; ten wood engravings by Derrick Harris.

Creator:: Barclay, John, 1582–1621
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: [2], 158 pages, [10] leaves of plates : ilustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Abyss / by Leonid Andreyev ; translated by John Cournos ; with engravings by Ivan Lebedeff.

Creator:: Andreyev, Leonid, 1871–1919
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: 31, [1] pages : illustations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Crotty Shinkwin : a tale of the strange adventure that befell a butcher of County Clare : The beauty spot : a tale concerning the Chilterns / both tales by A.E. Coppard ; engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [6], 67, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The tragedy of Osmond the great Turk, or, The noble servant (1657) / by Lodowick Carlell ; printed from the edition of 1657 ; with an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll ...

Creator:: Carlell, Lodowick, 1602?-1675
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [5], x-xii, [6], 59, [5] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nigel Hamway.

76. The voyage of the Bounty's launch : as related in William Bligh's despatch to the Admiralty and the journal of John Fryer / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 86, [2] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The Golden Cockerel Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / translated by Edward FitzGerald ; the first edition reprinted, together with FitzGerald's monk-Latin version now printed for the first time ; translations of the Latin & of the Persian originals and a critical essay by Sir E. Denison Ross ; introduction by Charles Ganz ; line engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Omar Khayyam
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [2], 5-99, [3] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Glue and lacquer : four cautionary tales / translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-hsieh ; preface by Arthur Waley ; with illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill interpreted on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Feng, Menglong, 1574–1646
Date:: 1941
Physical Description:: 139, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Tomorrow's star : an essay on the shattering and remoulding of a world / by L. Cranmer-Byng.

Creator:: Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot), 1872–1945
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 179, [3] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Red wise / by E. Powys Mathers.

Creator:: Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892–1939
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [8], 98, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Procreant hymn / by E. Powys Mathers.

Creator:: Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892–1939
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: 20, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Endymion : a poetic romance / by John Keats ; with engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Keats, John, 1795–1821
Date:: 1947
Physical Description:: 150 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Folk tales and fairy stories from India / by Sudhin N. Ghose ; with illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile.

Creator:: Ghose, Sudhindra Nath.
Date:: 1961
Physical Description:: 147, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Micro-cosmographie, or, A piece of the world discovered in essayes and characters / by John Earle ; edited by Gwendolen Murphy.

Creator:: Earle, John, 1601?-1665
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: [2], vi, [2], 73, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Gray's Elegy written in a country church-yard / with a foreword by Christopher Sandford ; and eight engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

Creator:: Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:: McMxlvi [1946]
Physical Description:: 19, [3] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the great / by Henry Fielding ; with seven etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: viii, 278, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Miscellaneous poems / by Jonathan Swift, DD., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; edited by R. Ellis Roberts ; decorated with engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: MCMXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: viii, 67, [3] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Flowers and faces / by H.E. Bates ; engravings by John Nash.

Creator:: Bates, H. E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905–1974
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: 52, [2] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The Tenbury letters / selected & edited by Edmund H. Fellowes, hon. librarian of St. Michael's College, Tenbury ; & Edward Pine.

Date:: 1942
Physical Description:: [2], 5-223, [9] pages : facsimiles ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The green island : a novel / by Gwyn Jones ; engravings by John Petts.

Creator:: Jones, Gwyn, 1907–1999
Date:: 1946
Physical Description:: 84 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. W. H. Hudson's letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham : with a few to Cunninghame Graham's mother, Mrs. Bontine / edited, with an introduction, by Richard Curle ; drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham by Sir William Rothenstein.

Creator:: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
Date:: 1941
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Goat Green, or, The better gift / by Theodore Francis Powys ; engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

Creator:: Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875–1953
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 61, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Rummy : that noble game expounded in prose, poetry, diagram and engraving / by A.E. Coppard and Robert Gibbings ; with an account of certain diversions into the mountain fastnesses of Cork and Kerry.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [4], 49, [7] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Lucina sine concubitu : a letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society : with 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury.

Creator:: Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: [4], 40, [3] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The hansom cab and the pigeons : being random reflections upon the silver jubilee of King George V / by L.A.G. Strong.

Creator:: Strong, L. A. G. (Leonard Alfred George), 1896–1958
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: 42, [4] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A crime against Cania / by Arthur Calder-Marshall.

Creator:: Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 1908–
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [2], 65, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The true historie of Lucian : the Samosatenian / translated from the Greeke into English by Francis Hickes, with an introduction by J.S. Phillimore M.A., L.L.D. ; together with the Greeke and decorated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Lucian, of Samosata
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: [4], 43, [3] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The apple trees : four reminiscences / by Hugh Walpole ; with wood-engravings by Lynton Lamb.

Creator:: Walpole, Hugh, 1884–1941
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [4], 73, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Crusader castles / by T.E. Lawrence.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Pelagea & other poems / by A.E. Coppard.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], 44, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

2. The book of Jonah taken from the authorized version of King James I / with engravings on wood by David Jones.

3. Sonnets : with folk songs from the Spanish / by Havelock Ellis.

4. The four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ : according to the Authorized version of King James I : with decorations by Eric Gill.

5. Maya / a play by Simon Gantillon ; paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon ; with XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton.

6. The Chester play of the deluge / edited by J. Isaacs ; with engravings on wood by David Jones.

7. Lucretia Borgia : the chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei : Renaissance period / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; commentary and notes by Randolph Hughes ; engravings by Reynolds Stone.

8. Count Stefan / by A.E. Coppard.

9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a prose translation / with an introductory essay by Gwyn Jones ; with six engravings in colour by Dorothea Braby.

10. Minxes admonished, or, Beauty reproved : an album of deplorable caprices / faithfully narrated & modestly embellished by William Russell Flint

12. Masques & poems / by Peter Quennell.

13. The hundredth story of A.E. Coppard / with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

14. A voyage round the world with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution / by Anders Sparrman ; introduction & notes by Owen Rutter ; wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

15. Together and alone : two short novels / by Christopher Whitfield ; with engravings by John O'Connor.

16. Roses of Sharon : poems chosen from the flower of ancient Hebrew literature / with an introduction, by W.O.E. Oesterley, D.D. ; 12 wood-engravings by Mary Groom.

17. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

18. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

19. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

20. A rapture / by Thomas Carew ; with engravings by J.E. Laboureur.

21. A sentimental journey through France and Italy / by Laurence Sterne ; with six engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

22. An apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews / by Henry Fielding? ; with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson.

24. The serpent's presence / by Eurof Walters ; with eight wood-engravings by Clifford Webb.

25. Lady from yesterday / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

26. Cosmetics for my lady & good fare for my lord : collected recipes.

27. The puppet show / by Martin Armstrong.

28. Maxims and considerations of Chamfort / translated, with an introduction, by E. Powys Mathers.

29. Men in print : essays in literary criticism / by T.E. Lawrence ; introduction by A.W. Lawrence.

30. The book of days of Llewelyn Powys : thoughts from his philosophy / selected by John Wallis ; printed, with an introduction by Llewelyn Powys and twelve etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, at the Golden Cockerel Press.

31. The journal of James Morrison : boatswain's mate of the Bounty, describing the mutiny & subsequent misfortunes of the mutineers : together with an account of the island of Tahiti / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and five engravings by Robert Gibbings.

32. Storm at sea / by Jack Lindsay & wood-engravings by John Farleigh.

33. The golden carpet / by Somerset De Chair.

34. The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion / a new translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones ; with illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

35. A croppe of kisses : selected lyrics of Ben Jonson / chosen, with an appreciation, by John Wallis.

36. Daphnis & Chloe : a most sweet, and pleasant pastorall romance for young ladies / translated out of the Greek of Longus, by Geo. Thornley, gent.

37. The story of a lifetime / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

39. The birth of Christ : from the Gospel according to Saint Luke.

40. Hymn to Proserpine / by Algernon Charles Swinburne; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

41. A pilgrim in Arabia / H. St. J.B. Philby.

42. Songs and poems of John Dryden / chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones ; drawings by Lavinia Blythe.

43. Mr. Chambers and Persephone : a tale / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby.

44. Chanticleer : bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, April 1921-1936 August ; introduction by Humbert Wolfe ; foreword & notes by the partners ; illustrations from the books.

46. The ladies' pocket book of etiquette / by A. F. (1838) ; with engravings by Hester Sainsbury.

47. Salambo / Gustave Flaubert ; translated by E. Powys Mathers ; decorated with engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

48. Religio medici / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician, of Norwich.

49. Sermons by artists / Paul Nash, David Low, Robert Gibbings [and others] ...

50. Shaw-Ede : T. E. Lawrence's letters to H.S. Ede, 1927-1935 / foreword and running commentary by H.S. Ede.

51. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

52. The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; with 15 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

53. The golden bed of Kydno / translated from the modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris by P.M. & illustrated with twelve line-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

54. The Ephesian story / by Xenophon of Ephesus ; translated from the Greek by Paul Turner ; with illustrations by Eric Fraser.

55. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

56. The white llama : being La venganza del condor of V.G. Calderon / now translated into English for the first time by Richard Phibbs ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

57. The country of the blind : 1939 / by H.G. Wells ; with engravings by Clifford Webb.

58. The constant mistress / by Enid Clay ; wth engravings by Eric Gill.

59. The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : Edward Fitzgerald's translation reprinted from the first edition with his preface and notes ; drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

60. Moncrif's Cats = Les chats de Francois Augustin Paradis de Moncrif / translated by Reginald Bretnor.

61. The saga of Llywarch the Old / a reconstruction by Glyn Jones ; with the verse interludes translated by T.J. Morgan, D.Litt. ; and an introduction by Sir Ifor Williams, D.Litt., F.B.A.

62. A journey from this world to the next / by Henry Fielding ; with six etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

63. Harriet & Mary : being the relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg, as shown in letters between them, now published for the first time / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

64. The Amazons : a novel / by Ivor Bannet ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

65. Clothing without cloth : an essay on the nude / by Eric Gill O.S.D. ; with engravings on wood by the author.

66. Woman in detail : a scientific survey / by Patrick Miller ; with drawings by Mark Severin.

67. Zastrozzi : a romance / by Percy Bysshe Shelley ; with an introduction by Phyllis Hartnoll and engravings by Cecil Keeling.

68. Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts / by Lemuel Gulliver ; first a surgeon, & then a captain of several ships.

69. The Psalter, or, Psalms of David : taken from the Book of common prayer.

70. Id quod visum placet : a practical test of the beautiful. / by Eric Gill, T.O.S.D.

71. Ana the runner : a treatise for princes & generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul / by Patrick Miller ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

72. Euphormio's Satyricon / by John Barclay ; translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner ; ten wood engravings by Derrick Harris.

73. Abyss / by Leonid Andreyev ; translated by John Cournos ; with engravings by Ivan Lebedeff.

74. Crotty Shinkwin : a tale of the strange adventure that befell a butcher of County Clare : The beauty spot : a tale concerning the Chilterns / both tales by A.E. Coppard ; engravings by Robert Gibbings.

75. The tragedy of Osmond the great Turk, or, The noble servant (1657) / by Lodowick Carlell ; printed from the edition of 1657 ; with an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll ...

76. The voyage of the Bounty's launch : as related in William Bligh's despatch to the Admiralty and the journal of John Fryer / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.

78. Glue and lacquer : four cautionary tales / translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-hsieh ; preface by Arthur Waley ; with illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill interpreted on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

79. Tomorrow's star : an essay on the shattering and remoulding of a world / by L. Cranmer-Byng.