Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Jones, Gwyn, 1907-1999
Title:
The green island : a novel / by Gwyn Jones ; engravings by John Petts.
Published / Created:
London : The Golden Cockrel Press, 1946.
Physical Description:
84 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR6019.O64 G74 1946
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The Green Island has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at The Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Caslon's Old Face type with Pharos capitals on Arnold's mould-made paper. Composition and presswork under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press. Compositors: A.W. Dick and S.J. Blundell. Pressman: H. Barker. Printed completed on 1th March, 1946. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. Nos. 1-100 have been specially bound."--Colophon.

Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 169

BAC: British Art Center cop is no. 38 of 50, specially bound in green and grey morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.

SMLY: Copy no. 284.
Subject Terms:
English literature -- 20th century. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Wood engravings -- 1946. | Fiction.
Contributors:
Sandford, Christopher. | Petts, John, 1914–1991, engraver. | Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. | Chiswick Press, printer. | Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.