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Sample Book for the Golden Cockerel Press,1930s

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with several specimen leaves from Paradise Lost, The Four Gospels, Lamia, The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian, The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Twelfth Night, featuring titles and leaves with illustrations by Gill, Gibbings and Ravilious, and with an additional 8pp. of The Canterbury Tales and a blank leaf loosely inserted, original half tan morocco over cloth on front board and patterned-paper (as in 'Canterbury Tales') on rear, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, 4to, [Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press], [1930s].

***Reported to have been prepared by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Owen Rutter, one of the partners of the press..

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