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Dryden.Songs & Poems,1/100 bound,G.Cock

Dryden (John) Songs and Poems,

number 3 of 100 specially-bound copies with the additional suite of black and white illustrations but lacking the additional suite of colour plates, from an edition limited to 500, illustrations by Lavinia Blythe (Lesley Blanch), some colour, original pictorial two-tone morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., additional plates loose as issued in envelope, together in cloth slip-case, [Cock-a-Hoop 206], folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1957.

***Blanch insisted on using a pseudonym as her style had changed so much since she had executed the watercolours before the war, for a projected but unpublished Dryden by the Chiswick Press..