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Title(s):
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a prose translation / with an introductory essay by Gwyn Jones ; with six engravings in colour by Dorothea Braby.
Additional Title(s):
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Published/Created:
London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1952.
Physical Description:
[4], 95 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2065 .G39 1952+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London. Composition and presswork under the supervision of E.T. Kelly at the Chiswick Press. The edition is limited to 360 numbered copies printed on Arnold's mould-made paper in Caslon's Old Face type with Pharos and Goudy Open titling. Numbers 1-60 are specially bound."--Colophon.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 15 of 360. Bound in green and rose morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Signed by Gwyn Jones and Dorothea Braby.
SML,Y Id G24 +952: "No. 187."
Subject Terms:
Arthurian romances.
Braby, Dorothea -- Autograph.
Gawain (Legendary character) -- Romances.
Jones, Gwyn -- Autograph.
Knights and knighthood -- Poetry.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Chromoxylographs -- 1952.
Contributors:
Braby, Dorothea, engraver.
Jones, Gwyn, writer of introduction.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Sandford, Christopher, book designer.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.
Chiswick Press, printer.
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