[The Golden Cockerel Press] [Prospectus] [Ephemera]

One of 4,000 copies printed at Chiswick Press. 16 pp., 12½ x 87/8 ins, Glastonbury cream laid paper. Full page engraving by Ravilious on front, adapted from the 1933 prospectus [LI]. Specimen pages from 'Ecclesiates' (wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton); 'Glory of Life' (two engravings by Gibbings); 'Cosmetics for My Lady' (title-page); 'The Garden of Caresses'; 'A Crime against Cania' (wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton); 'Storm at Sea'; 'The Lord's Song' (two initials and a device by Gill); 'The Constant Mistress' (engraving by Eric Gill; 'Cupid & Psyches' (title-page and frontispiece engraving by Lettice Sandford); and a wood-engraving by Gertrude Hermes from 'Strawberry Time'. Cockerel A on page 10. Also includes details of 'The Journal of James Morrison', 'Sermons by Artists', 'The Voyage of The Bounty's Launch', 'Guinea Series' and 'The House with the Apricot'. Loosely inserted: Bumpus Order Form and envelope. The rear pages are a BIBLIOGRAPHY of the press from 1921 to 1934 inclusive.