GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DRYDEN, John; BLYTHE, Lavinia (illustrator).

Songs and Poems.

Chosen and Introduced by Gwyn Jones.

Stock Code

102500

[London], The Golden Cockerel Press, 1957

£1,150

A superb example of the Golden Cockerel Press's 'Special' copies, handsomely bound in morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The fine colour plates by Lavinia Blythe provide perfect accompaniment to Dryden's poems and songs, and are reminiscent of the illustrative style of Rex Whistler.

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One of 100 copies specially bound and with an additional suite of the illustrations, from an overall limitation of 500; folio (380 x 250 mm.); colour frontispiece and 7 full-page colour illustrations, plain illustrations including vignettes; original green & brown morocco blocked in gilt, t.e.g.; with the additional suite of 16 plates loose and interleaved with pink paper in green card sleeve; together in original green cloth slip-case, a fine copy.