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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - DOROTHEA BRABY Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. A Prose Translation with an Introductory Essay by Gwyn Jones, [with additional suite of engravings], Golden Cockerel Press, 1952 [1954]; together with a suite of 6 additional engravings by Braby, all signed in pencil, window-mounted and retained in cloth portfolio (2)
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - DOROTHEA BRABY
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. A Prose Translation with an Introductory Essay by Gwyn Jones, [with additional suite of engravings], number 352 of 360 copies, one of 50 copies specially bound, wood-engraved title-vignette and 5 full-page illustrations by Dorothea Braby printed in shades of pink, green and grey, original full vellum gilt, slipcase, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1952 [1954]; together with a suite of 6 additional engravings by Braby, all signed in pencil, window-mounted and retained in cloth portfolio (2)
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According to Cave and Manson at the time of publication 60 copies were bound in coloured morocco, 250 copies were bound in coloured cloth, and in 1954 the remaining sheets were bound up as 50 copies in full vellum. This copy is one of the 50 special copies bound in vellum, and is accompanied by an additional suite of the coloured wood-engravings each signed by the artists and numbered 12/50, with one inscribed "For E. Moady".



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