Author additional ss: Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Terms: Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.

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. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. [Prospectus for Somerset Struben de Chair's The silver crescent]

Creator:: Golden Cockerel Press
Date:: [1943]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

Creator:: De Heriz, Patrick
Date:: [1947]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. One hundred and eleven poems / by Robert Herrick ; selected arranged & illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint P.R.W.S. R.A.

Creator:: Herrick, Robert, 1591–1674
Date:: 1955
Physical Description:: 127, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Topiary / by Cecil Stewart ; an historical diversion, with colour-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Creator:: Stewart, Cecil
Date:: [1955?]
Physical Description:: 33, [3] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. In defence of woman : a Welsh poem / by Wiliam Cynwal ; translated by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

Creator:: Cynwal, Wiliam, -1587 or 1588
Date:: [1960]
Physical Description:: 28, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The Athenians : being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends, Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

Creator:: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792–1862
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 86, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus : a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont / edited by Gwyn Jones ; with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: 44, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The log of the Bounty : being Lieutenant William Bligh's log of the proceedings of His Majesty's armed vessel Bounty in a voyage to the South Seas, to take the breadfruit from the Society Islands to the West Indies : now published for the first time from the manuscript in the Admiralty records / with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter ; comments on Bligh's navigation by Rear-Admiral J.A. Edgell, O.B.E., hydrographer of the Navy ; and four engravings on wood by Lynton Lamb.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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

36. The poems & sonnets of William Shakespeare / edited by Gwyn Jones.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1960
Physical Description:: 245, [1] pages ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Pervigilium Veneris = the vigil of Venus / translation by F.L. Lucas ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 27, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso / translated by the most eminent hands ; a selection from the 1717 edition ; with drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 248 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

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. Against women : a satire / translated from the old Welsh by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 25, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798 : preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c. / by Geoffrey Rawson ; with engravings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Flinders, Matthew, 1774–1814
Date:: 1946
Physical Description:: 100, [2] pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The Pilgrim fathers : a journal of their coming in the Mayflower to New England, and their life and adventures there / edited, with preface and notes, by Theodore Besterman ; eight engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 87, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Grimms' other tales : a new selection / by Wilhelm Hansen ; translated & edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliff ; illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 160 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Ecclesiastes, or, The preacher.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 21, [3] pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The first crusade : the deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites : "Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum" / translated into English for the first time by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum. English
Date:: 1945
Physical Description:: 92, [2] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The labyrinth of the world and the paradise of the heart / translated by Count Lutzow ; illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

Creator:: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592–1670
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: 271, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Love night : a Laotian gallantry / by Powys Mathers ; engravings by Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892–1939
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: [4], 7-140, [2] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. John Fryer of the Bounty : notes on his career / written by his daughter, Mary Ann ; with an introduction and commentary by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.

Creator:: Gamble, Mary Ann Fryer, 1791–
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 53, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Gilgamesh, king of Erech / by F.L. Lucas ; with twelve engravings by Dorothea Braby.

Creator:: Lucas, F. L. (Frank Laurence), 1894–1967
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: [2], 5-63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The Golden Cockerel Greek anthology : a selection of the poems / edited, with translations into English verse and an introduction, by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; line engravings on zinc by Lettice Sandford.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 81, [1] pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Men & manners / by William Shenstone ; selected and introduced by Havelock Ellis.

Creator:: Shenstone, William, 1714–1763
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: [2], xxiii, [3], 97, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Supper at Beaucaire / by Napoleon Bonaparte ; translated into English for the first time, by Somerset De Chair.

Creator:: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
Date:: MCMXLV [1945]
Physical Description:: 38, [1] pages : portrait ; 15 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Pictor ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto / by Robert Browning.

Creator:: Browning, Robert, 1812–1889
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], 9-39, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The voyage of the Challenger : a personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876 / by navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Swire, R.N. ; illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings in his journals ; foreword by Major Roger Swire ; introduction by G. Herbert Fowler.

Creator:: Swire, Herbert, -1934
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Bligh's voyage in the Resource : from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch packet Vlydt and his remarks on Morrison's journal : all printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales / with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter, & engravings on wood by Peter Barker-Mill.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 159, [3] pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld / selected from the Lushington papers and edited by Walter Sidney Scott ; illustrations by Lettice Sandford.

Creator:: Edgeworth, Maria, 1768–1849
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: [2], 5-86, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The green ship / by Patrick Miller.

Creator:: Miller, Patrick, 1885–1949
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: [6], 5-181, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Pasiphaë : a poem / by A.C. Swinburne.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: 40 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. 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

64. 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

65. The wisdom of the Cymry / translated from the Welsh triads, by Winifred Faraday.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 47, [1] pages 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. 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

67. 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

68. 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

69. 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

70. We happy few : an anthology / by Owen Rutter ; with eleven engravings by John O'Connor.

Date:: 1946
Physical Description:: 150 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A lovers progress : seventeenth century lyrics / selected by Nancy Quennell.

Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [2], 5-84, [2] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The tale of the golden cockerel / by Pushkin.

Creator:: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837
Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 22, [1] pages : illustrations ; 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Jurgen : a comedy of justice / by James Branch Cabell ; with wood engravings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Cabell, James Branch, 1879–1958
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: 349, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. 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

75. 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

76. 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

77. 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

78. 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

79. 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

80. 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

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. 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

89. 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

90. A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

Creator:: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. 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

92. Lamia, Isabella, The eve of Saint Agnes & other poems / by John Keats ; with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Keats, John, 1795–1821
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: [4], 100, [4] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. 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

94. Secret despatches from Arabia / by T.E. Lawrence ; published by permission of the Foreign Office ; foreword by A.W. Lawrence.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 173, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The silver crescent / by Somerset de Chair.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 126, [2] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The epicure's anthology / collected by Nancy Quennell ; with an essay on the epicure and the epicurean by A.J.A. Symons ; and decorations by Osbert Lancaster.

Creator:: Quennell, Nancy
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: 187, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The Grecian enchanted / by Phyllis Hartnoll ; with eight aquatints by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Hartnoll, Phyllis
Date:: 1952
Physical Description:: 80 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Strawberry time, and, The banquet / by R.H. Mottram.

Creator:: Mottram, R. H. (Ralph Hale), 1883–1971
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [2], 87, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. 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

100. Laus veneris / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: [6], 9-27, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 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. 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.

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

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

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

7. [Prospectus for Somerset Struben de Chair's The silver crescent]

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22. 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.

23. 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.

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

25. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

26. One hundred and eleven poems / by Robert Herrick ; selected arranged & illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint P.R.W.S. R.A.

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

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

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

30. Topiary / by Cecil Stewart ; an historical diversion, with colour-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

31. In defence of woman : a Welsh poem / by Wiliam Cynwal ; translated by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

32. The Athenians : being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends, Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

33. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus : a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont / edited by Gwyn Jones ; with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright.

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

36. The poems & sonnets of William Shakespeare / edited by Gwyn Jones.

37. Pervigilium Veneris = the vigil of Venus / translation by F.L. Lucas ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

38. Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso / translated by the most eminent hands ; a selection from the 1717 edition ; with drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

39. 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.

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

41. 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.

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

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

44. Against women : a satire / translated from the old Welsh by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

45. Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798 : preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c. / by Geoffrey Rawson ; with engravings by John Buckland Wright.

46. The Pilgrim fathers : a journal of their coming in the Mayflower to New England, and their life and adventures there / edited, with preface and notes, by Theodore Besterman ; eight engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

47. Grimms' other tales : a new selection / by Wilhelm Hansen ; translated & edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliff ; illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

48. Ecclesiastes, or, The preacher.

49. The first crusade : the deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites : "Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum" / translated into English for the first time by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

50. The labyrinth of the world and the paradise of the heart / translated by Count Lutzow ; illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

51. Love night : a Laotian gallantry / by Powys Mathers ; engravings by Buckland Wright.

52. John Fryer of the Bounty : notes on his career / written by his daughter, Mary Ann ; with an introduction and commentary by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.

53. Gilgamesh, king of Erech / by F.L. Lucas ; with twelve engravings by Dorothea Braby.

54. The Golden Cockerel Greek anthology : a selection of the poems / edited, with translations into English verse and an introduction, by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; line engravings on zinc by Lettice Sandford.

55. Men & manners / by William Shenstone ; selected and introduced by Havelock Ellis.

56. Supper at Beaucaire / by Napoleon Bonaparte ; translated into English for the first time, by Somerset De Chair.

57. Pictor ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto / by Robert Browning.

60. Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld / selected from the Lushington papers and edited by Walter Sidney Scott ; illustrations by Lettice Sandford.

61. The green ship / by Patrick Miller.

62. Pasiphaë : a poem / by A.C. Swinburne.

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

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

65. The wisdom of the Cymry / translated from the Welsh triads, by Winifred Faraday.

67. 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.

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

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

70. We happy few : an anthology / by Owen Rutter ; with eleven engravings by John O'Connor.

71. A lovers progress : seventeenth century lyrics / selected by Nancy Quennell.

72. The tale of the golden cockerel / by Pushkin.

73. Jurgen : a comedy of justice / by James Branch Cabell ; with wood engravings by John Buckland Wright.

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

75. 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.

77. 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.

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