GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John. CABELL, James Branch. ~ Jurgen. A Comedy of Justice.
16 wood-engravings by John Buckland-Wright. One of 500 copies, this no.311. Sm. 4to., original red morocco backed, red buckram by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with design of a satyr and a maiden blocked in gilt on the upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, spine rather faded otherwise good.
Jurgen is one of the world’s greatest satires but also a great romance, Sir Hugh Walpole rated it very highly : “no book in the English language...colours one’s imagination and fancy quite as this one does...The world of Jurgen with its grotesquerie, its sudden beauty, its poverty and its pity, its adventure and romance, is a world descended from earlier worlds but unique of its own period.”
Christopher Sandford of the Golden Cockerel Press particularly relished Buckland-Wright’s wood-engravings for this book due to their unusually dark atmosphere.
Booklabel of Clarence Hanson on front pastedown.