The Song of Songs.
by GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SANDFORD, Lettice
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. No. 109 of 204 copies. 13 line engravings by Lettice Sandford, 12 full-page. Printed in red and black in Gill’s Perpetua type. Folio, original white buckram with an engraving by Sandford stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Booklabel on front pastedown. Few small marks to the cloth, top corners bumped, generally a very good clean copy very slightly cocked.||One of Golden Cockerel’s most successful books with its gently erotic engravings by Sandford, the wife of the owner of the Press.|Chanticleer, Bibliography of Golden Cockerel Press, 110
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11829
- Title
- The Song of Songs.
- Author
- GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SANDFORD, Lettice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Golden Cockerel Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Golden Cockerel Press;Lettice Sandford;Drawings;Prints Book,Illustrated, Private Press
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Glossary
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...