GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. LABOUREUR, J.E. STERNE, Lawrence. ~ The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1929-1930
15 copper-engravings by Laboureur, two pages of pure black print, one green marbled print. One of 500 copies on English hand-made paper, this no. 154. Three volumes. 8vo., original maroon buckram, top edges gilt, others uncut. Spines faded, a little scuffing to sides, very edges and free endpapers very slightly browned, otherwise good. Morocco and gilt booklabels of C.S. Barlow on front pastedowns.
Laboureur’s work was very much in vogue at this time being a great favourite both of Stanley Morison and Eric Gill amongst others.
Chanticleer, Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 66
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