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Creator:
Bannet, Ivor
Title(s):
The Amazons : a novel / by Ivor Bannet ; engravings by Clifford Webb.
Published/Created:
London : Printed and published in England by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.
Physical Description:
252, [2] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR6003.A66 A43 1948+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The Amazons has been designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, Poland Street, London, in Poliphilus type, with Centaur initials, on Arnold's mould-made paper. Composition and presswork under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press. Compositors: V. Green and F. Danzfuss. Pressman: J. Bierman. The maps were drawn by Mina Greenhill. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. Nos. 1-80 will be specially bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe under the supervision of Stanley Bray."--Colophon.
Dreyfus, J. History of the Nonesuch Press, 181
BEIN 2013 +526: No. 289. Binder's stamp: S. & S., London.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 80 of 500, the first 80 of which were specially bound in gilt-stamped brown morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
Subject Terms:
Bannet, Ivor -- Autograph.
English fiction.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Webb, Clifford -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Wood engravings -- 1948.
Binders' stamps (Binding) -- Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Contributors:
Chiswick Press, printer.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Greenhill, Mina, 1899– illustrator.
Newbery, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1855–1946, printer.
Sandford, Christopher, book designer.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.
Webb, Clifford, 1895– engraver.
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