Search Results: Private Press from Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Book. Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small stapled red paper-covered booklet with title on front and rear cover. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. 48pp. Several b/w illustrations. This book includes a list of books in stock and in preparation published by the Golden Cockerel Press for the year 1955-1956. Amongst others, it includes details of the publication of In Defence of Woman, an old Welsh poem translated by Gwyn Williams and a selection of books illustrated by John Buckland-Wright who had passed away in the Autumn of 1954, including Salmacis and Hermaphroditus and Laus Veneris.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1956. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small sewn blue paper-covered booklet with title in silver on front and rear cover. Condition: Very good, with general light shelfwear to covers. 24pp. Several b/w illustrations. This book includes a list of books in stock and in preparation published by the Golden Cockerel Press for the year 1956-1957. Amongst others, it includes details of the publication of L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, the poem by Stephane Mallarme, illustrated by John Buckland Wright..

London: Oxford University Press/Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1954. Book. Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Turquoise cloth with title printed on label on front cover. Condition: Good, with light browning to endpapers from dustjacket flaps. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Spare title label for front cover tipped in to the edge of the last page of text. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally lightly shelfworn with sunning to spine and dustjacket edges. Price-clipped. 40pp. 4 b/w illustrations. One of an edition of 750 copies. The history of the Gregynog Press had never been written before the Double Crown Club invited D.r Thomas Jones, then chairman of the press, to deliver an informal lecture on it. This book reprints the lecture as spoken, with illustrations from the original blocks, and with the addition of an appendix which gives a bibliographical description of the books printed and published at Gregynog..