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Endymion. A Poetic Romance … with Engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

[London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, [1947].

Folio, pp. 150, [2], with a frontispiece and 55 woodcut illustrations by Buckland-Wright, some full-page; a few leaves slightly foxed (as often with this work), else a very good copy in the publisher’s quarter vellum and red boards, stamped gilt.

£1750

Approximately:
US $2185  €2042

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No. 200 of 500 copies (the first 100 specially bound in full vellum); also found in brown buckram rather than red as here. Buckland-Wright’s greatest work and one of the most important Golden Cockerel publications, it was begun in 1943 but not completed until late 1947.

Franklin, p. 229.

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