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Golden Cockerel Press. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont, edited by Gwyn Jones, with 10 engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright, Golden Cockerel Press, 1951, 10 wood engravings printed in colour, including title vignette (8 full-page), 2 colour wood engraved head-pieces, untrimmed, original quarter crushed blue morocco (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe) over green cloth, with matching slipcase, small folio, limited edition 47 of 80 especially-bound copies, signed by the editor and artist, but without the extra plate called for, from an edition of 380 copies, together with: The Athenians, being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, edited by Walter Sidney Scott, Golden Cockerel Press, 1943, top edge gilt, original brown full morocco gilt, small 4to, limited edition of 350 copies, this being number 47 of 50 copies specially bound, and containing collotype reproductions from letters by Hogg, Shelley, Peacock and Hunt, signed by the editor, plus: The Golden Carpet by Somerset de Chair, published by permission of The War Office, Golden Cockerel Press, 1943, bookplate of George Hugh Recknell to front pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original quarter dark green morocco gilt, spine somewhat sunned, small 4to, limited edition 211 of 500 copies (Qty: 3) Cock-a-Hoop 187 (Salmacis); Cockalorum 158 (The Athenians); Cockalorum 155 (Golden Carpet).