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Creator:
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Title(s):
Laus veneris / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.
Published/Created:
London : Printed in Great Britain by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.
Physical Description:
[6], 9-27, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5506 .L38 1948
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This edition of Laus Veneris has been designed, produced and published by Chistopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, by kind permission of Messs. William Heinemann. Composition and presswork under the supervision of James Shand at the Shenval Press. Compositors: H.R. Sheldrake and R.J. Cracknell. Pressman: R.F. Parsley. The edition has been limited to 750 numbered copies of which nos. 1-100 contain one extra engraving and are specially bound."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 178
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 7 of 750, one of the first 100 copies containing an extra engraving and specially bound in red morocco with gilt-stamped black inlay.
BEIN Ip Sw63 866Lb: "Copy no. 53."
Poem.
Subject Terms:
English poetry -- 20th century.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Poems.
Wood engravings -- 1948.
Contributors:
Buckland Wright, John, 1897–1954, engraver.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Sandford, Christopher, designer.
Shenval Press, printer.
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