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Melbourne: N, 1970. [Exhibition catalogue]. Pp. 52 (including adverts.); small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled; occasional light foxing; [Old Xaverians' Association], Melbourne, 1970.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1956. Pp. 24; cr. 8vo; blue paper wrappers printed in silver, stapled, with Buckland-Wright cockerel facing left and right on wrappers (a coarsened version of the engraving on the l947 catalogue); cream wove paper, ll illustrations, all new, with details of 6 new books and 4 recent books; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1956. Cock-a-Hoop XCI. *Artists include Mark Severin, John Petts, Gwenda Morgan, John Buckland-Wright, Dorothea Braby, Sir William Russell Flint.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Pp. 48; cr. 8vo; red paper wrappers, stapled, printed in gold with martial devices by Geoffrey Wales, reproduced from the binding brasses for Nelson's Letters from the Leeward Islands; smooth cream wove paper; 25 illustrations, of which about half are new; reprints an article from Printing World (The Golden Cockerel Press maintains the tradition of Caxton and the early printers), plus details of 5 new books, 6 illustrated by John Buckland-Wright, preceded by A Short Recollection of the artist by Christopher Sandford, 6 recent titles and 14 books of which stocks will soon be exhausted; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, n.d.[?1955]. Cock-a-Hoop XC. *With order form loosely inserted.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1956. Pp. 24; cr. 8vo; blue paper wrappers printed in silver, stapled, with Buckland-Wright cockerel facing left and right on wrappers (a coarsened version of the engraving on the l947 catalogue), upper wrapper very slightly marked; cream wove paper, ll illustrations, all new, with details of 6 new books and 4 recent books; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1956. Cock-a-Hoop XCI. *Artists include Mark Severin, John Petts, Gwenda Morgan, John Buckland-Wright, Dorothea Braby, Sir William Russell Flint.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1960. Pp. [8], stapled, front page featuring 4 striding cockerels C2L [engraved by Robert Gibbings] above the title, which is printed in red; announces four new volumes (In Defence of Woman, by Gwyn Williams; The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare; Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India, by Sudhin Ghose; and Moncrif's Cats), plus a stock list of 32 titles; also gives details of a subscription scheme, whereby those undertaking to take four books a year obtain a 15 percent reduction in price; 24.5 cm. x 15.5. cm.; Glastonbury cream wove paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1960. *This was the first prospectus to be issued after the purchase of the Golden Cockerel Press by Thomas Yoseloff. (The subscription scheme was quickly withdrawn in a following letter dated 9th August 1960, and a subsequent issue of this catalogue, omitting mention of the subscription scheme, was produced). Cock-a-Hoop XCIV.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1958. Pp. [8]; cr. 8vo; smooth cream wove paper, first page printed in yellow, text printed in black, stapled; on the front, a photograph of a corn dolly made by Lettice Sandford; six illustrations: photographs of bindings and page openings. Gives details of a new book The Metamorphoses of Ovid, and four others; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, n.d.[1958]. Prospectus printed by The John Roberts Press. Cock-a-Hoop XCII.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Mr. Robert Gibbings presents his world famous Golden Cockerel in its Eleventh Year in six completely New and Original Numbers. Pp. [16], stabbed and tied, a full page and two smaller engravings by Eric Ravilious (one specially cut for this prospectus, and two from Twelfth Night) and two by Robert Gibbings from Salambo; 25 cm. x 19 cm.; cream wove paper; some light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1932. Cock-a-Hoop XLVIII. *Without the loosely inserted order form, called for, but with two loosely inserted labels for Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, I and III, printed in red & black.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1929. Single fold, 4 pp., cockerel B, plus floriated initial by Eric Gill; 25.2 cm. x 18.5 cm.; white laid hand-made paper; lightly creased at centre, margins lightly browned; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1929. Cock-a-Hoop XXX.2.