VARIOUS PRESSES -- BOURDEILLE, Pierre de, Abbot of Brantome. The Lives of Gallant Ladies. [Waltham Saint Lawrence:] privately printed for subscribers [of the New Aretine Society] [by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. 2 volumes, 4°, 10 wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, original cloth-backed boards with paper spine labels (corners bumped), partly unopened. LIMITED TO 718 COPIES, this one of 625 on rag paper, with the printed note of limitation inserted in volume I and signed by Gibbings. Chanticleer 18.

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VARIOUS PRESSES -- BOURDEILLE, Pierre de, Abbot of Brantome. The Lives of Gallant Ladies. [Waltham Saint Lawrence:] privately printed for subscribers [of the New Aretine Society] [by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. 2 volumes, 4°, 10 wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, original cloth-backed boards with paper spine labels (corners bumped), partly unopened. LIMITED TO 718 COPIES, this one of 625 on rag paper, with the printed note of limitation inserted in volume I and signed by Gibbings. Chanticleer 18.

RABELAIS, Franois. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais ... illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, London: privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1921. 2 volumes, 8°, printed on laid paper, illustrations after Heath Robinson throughout, some full-page, original white buckram decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. With The Heptameron; or, The Tales of Margaret Queen of Navarre ... translated into English from the authentic text of M. Le Roux de Lincy, also printed for the Navarre Society (London, 1922) in 5 uniformly-bound volumes.

BEERBOHM, Max. A Survey, London: William Heinemann, 1921, 4°, coloured frontispiece, 57 caricature plates, all tipped-in, original purple cloth, spine faded. NO. 26 OF 275 COPIES, numbered and signed by the author.

FARQUHAR, George. The Recuiting Officer; A comedy, London: for Peter Davies, 1926. 2°, 12 coloured collotype plates afrer Vera Willoughby, original patterned boards, partly uncut. NO.316 OF 55O COPIES on mould paper. With 5 other volumes, 2 illustrated by Harry Clarke and one by Arthur Rackham. (16)

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