Accession number
PML 143225
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Published
Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Volume one."
Imprint from t.p. and colophon.
Title and headings printed in blue and black.
Text printed in double columns.
One of an edition of 450 copies, 260 of which were destroyed before publication, leaving 190 copies to be issued by the press. Cf. Cave & Munson.
"Here ends volume I of Essays by Jonathan Swift; edited by R. Ellis Roberts, & illustrated with wood engravings by Jon Farleigh. Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, under the direction of Robert Gibbings; and completed on the 14th day of July, 1925. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressmen: A.C. Cooper and W.R. Mills. This edition is limited to 450 copies."--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 332.
Imprint from t.p. and colophon.
Title and headings printed in blue and black.
Text printed in double columns.
One of an edition of 450 copies, 260 of which were destroyed before publication, leaving 190 copies to be issued by the press. Cf. Cave & Munson.
"Here ends volume I of Essays by Jonathan Swift; edited by R. Ellis Roberts, & illustrated with wood engravings by Jon Farleigh. Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, under the direction of Robert Gibbings; and completed on the 14th day of July, 1925. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressmen: A.C. Cooper and W.R. Mills. This edition is limited to 450 copies."--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 332.
Description
80 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 27 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original vellum backed light green marbled boards.
Classification
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