GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. ~ Endymion. A Poetic Romance by John Keats.
58 wood-engravings by John Buckland-Wright. One of 400 ordinary copies (this unnumbered), there were also 100 special copies. Tall 4to., bound later to the same design as the original special copies in full white vellum over boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt with the date at the bottom (the lettering and date are not like the original), image of Cynthia, the Moon Goddess, amongst the stars and planets by Buckland Wright blocked in gilt probably from the original brass on both sides, modern paper endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Occasional light browning as usual, otherwise a very handsome copy.
Endymion in a quest for ideal beauty, explores woods and glades, the underworld, the depths of the sea and then the skies where he finds the ultimate object of ideal beauty in Cynthia, goddess of the moon. Buckland Wright upholds the romance and “maintained ectasy” of Keats’s great poem in his seemingly constant stream of passionate wood-engravings.