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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND-WRIGHT KEATS (JOHN) Endymion. A Poetic Romance, ONE OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, Waltham St Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947 image 1
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND-WRIGHT KEATS (JOHN) Endymion. A Poetic Romance, ONE OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, Waltham St Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947 image 2
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND-WRIGHT
KEATS (JOHN) Endymion. A Poetic Romance, ONE OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, 1947

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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND-WRIGHT

KEATS (JOHN) Endymion. A Poetic Romance, ONE OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, from an overall edition of 500, this copy not numbered or signed by the artist, wood-engraved illustrations (some full-page) by John Buckland-Wright, light foxing to 3 pages of text, original pictorial vellum gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a gilt-blocked design of Cynthia, Goddess of the Moon after Buckland-Wright on the upper cover, t.e.g. [Cockalorum 175; Reid A47a], small folio, Waltham St Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947

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"In his 58 illustrations Buckland Wright is both as classical and as romantic as the poet could have desired. His vision, it seems to me, approaches that of Keats as closely as is possible for any artist working in our generation. While there is more than a hint of classicism in his admirable figures, their groupings and settings are romantic" (Christopher Sandford, Cockalorum).

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