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Creator:
Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Title(s):
Mr. Chambers and Persephone : a tale / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby.
Published/Created:
London : Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Physical Description:
62, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR6045.H58 .M57 1937
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Mr. Chambers and Persephone has been printed by Christopher & Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press, 10 Staple Inn, London, and completed on the 10th day of September, 1937. This edition is signed by the author and limited to 150 copies printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper. ... (There is also an unsigned, unlimited edition.)"--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 125
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 21 of 150; signed by the author. Bound in green quarter morocco with yellow cloth boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Subject Terms:
English fiction -- 20th century.
English fiction.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Whitfield, Christopher -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Wood engravings -- 1937.
Fiction.
Contributors:
Braby, Dorothea, engraver
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Sandford, Christopher, printer.
Sandford, Anthony, printer.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.
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