Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Caesar, Julius
Title:
Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.
Alternate Title(s):
De bello Gallico. English
Published / Created:
London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1951.
Physical Description:
311, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PA6235 .A2 1951+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title vignette.

Head pieces.

Maps on front and end paste-downs. Printed by Edward Stanford Ltd.

"Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London. Composition and presswork by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh. The edition is limited to 320 numbered copies printed in Baskerville type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Nos. 1-70 are specially bound."--Page [4].

BEIN 2006 +382: No. 151. Bookplate, call no. label, and charge slip removed.

BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 55 of 320, signed by the editor and engraver. Bound in gilt-stamped red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Subject Terms:
Gaul -- History -- 58 B.C.-511 A.D. | Rome -- History -- Republic, 265–30 B.C. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | De Chair, Somerset -- Autograph. | Webb, Clifford -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Wood engravings -- 1951.
Contributors:
De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911– editor. | Edward Stanford Ltd., printer. | Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. | R. & R. Clark (Firm), printer. | Sandford, Christopher, book designer. | Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder. | Webb, Clifford, 1895– engraver.