One Hundred and Eleven Poems
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Forty-two, two-tone collotype reproductions with eight individual prints loose laid in wrap-around band by William Russell Flint. Limited edition. Issued in Sangorski & Sutcliffe full cream sheepskin, pictorially stamped in gilt, teg, turn-ins ruled in gilt, in publisher's marbled slipcase. 127. [1]. 11" x 7.5" Moderate toning to spine and extremities with spots of rubbing, light soiling to boards, still very good, in very good slipcase with moderate wear to extremities. Overall tight and internally clean copy. Item #240274
LIKE PRINTING IN A PREVIOUS AGE
During his final year as the president of Britain's Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, William Russell Flint contacted president of The Golden Cockerel Press, Christopher Sandford, to produce his illustrated edition of Robert Herrick's poems. Full of lush, sensual crayon drawings to match Herrick's risqué poems, printing Flint's project returned Sandford to the "nostalgic thrill of printing, as it were, in a previous age!" This collection features Herrick's most beloved poems, including "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time."
This edition is limited to 550 numbered copies, of which numbers 1-105 are bound in sheepskin and accompanied by eight extra loose prints, of which this is 47. This copy is signed by the Flint on the limitation page.
[Cock-a-Hoop 199].
Price: $1,500.00