Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616
Title:
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus : a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont / edited by Gwyn Jones ; with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright.
Published / Created:
London : Printed in Great Britain by the Golden Cockerel Pess, 1951.
Physical Description:
44, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2430 .S27 1951+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1-5 Poland Street, London. The edition is limited to 380 copies printed on Arnold's unbleached rag paper in Caslon's Old Face type with Pharos titling. Copies numbered 1-80 are specially bound and contain one extra plate."--Colophon.

The text has been transcribed from a microfilm of the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 62 of 380. Signed by editor and engraver. One of 80 copies specially bound in navy quarter morocco and green buckram.
Subject Terms:
Hermaphroditus (Greek deity) -- Poetry. | Salmacis (Greek deity) -- Poetry. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Hermaphroditus (Greek deity) | Salmacis (Greek deity) | Jones, Gwyn -- Autograph. | Buckland Wright, John -- Autograph., illustrator.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Chromoxylographs. | Poetry.
Contributors:
Buckland Wright, John, 1897–1954, illustrator. | Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. | Jones, Gwyn, editor. | Sandford, Christopher, book designer.