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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS -- The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, translated by F.L. Lucas. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. 2° (312 x 186mm). Title printed in red and black. Text printed in roman and greek types. Woodcut frontispiece, title-border and -vignette, 10 illustrations and press-device by and after Mark Severin. Original crushed red morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, boards with blind-ruled borders and gilt designs after Severin, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities very lightly rubbed).

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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS -- The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, translated by F.L. Lucas. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. 2° (312 x 186mm). Title printed in red and black. Text printed in roman and greek types. Woodcut frontispiece, title-border and -vignette, 10 illustrations and press-device by and after Mark Severin. Original crushed red morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, boards with blind-ruled borders and gilt designs after Severin, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities very lightly rubbed).

LIMITED TO 750 COPIES, THIS NO. 84 OF 100 SPECIALLY-BOUND COPIES. Cockalorum 177.
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