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Creator:
Coventry, Francis, 1725?-1759
Title(s):
The history of Pompey the Little, or, The life and adventures of a lap-dog.
Additional Title(s):

Life and adventures of a lap-dog

Pompey the Little
Published/Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[5], viii-xvi, 225, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3369.C68 H57 1926
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zab G138 Zz926Co: No. 254 of 400. Dust jacket. Initials and manuscript notes of Donald Gallup. From the library of Donald Gallup.
Introduction by Arundell Del Re.
"This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Goden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire, and completed on the 6th day of September, 1926. The wood engravings are by David Jones. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 400 copies."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 44
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 314 of 400. Bound in cream quarter buckram with brown paper covered boards.
MUDD,ZETA Ik C838 751j: "This edition is limited to 400 copies. This is no. 326."
A satirical romance.
Subject Terms:
Adventure stories.
Dogs -- Fiction.
Gallup, Donald, 1913–2000 -- Autograph.
Gallup, Donald, 1913–2000 -- Manuscript notes.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Wood engravings -- 1926.
Adventure fiction.
Satire.
Annotations (Provenance) -- 20th century.
Contributors:
Jones, David, 1895–1974, engraver.
Del Re, Arundell, 1892–1974, writer of introduction.
Golden Cockerel Press.
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