GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. JONSON, Ben. A Croppe of Kisses; Selected Lyrics of Ben Jonson, Chosen, with an Appreciation, by John Wallis. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Small folio. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter red morocco over beige canvas boards, cockerel device in gold to upper cover, lettered and decorated in gilt with two cockerel devices to the spine; top edge gilt, else untrimmed; title printed in red, green and yellow, initial letters in various colours; pp. [vi], 5-48, [vi]; an excellent copy, a few very light marks to boards and endleaves lightly offset, but otherwise an excellent copy.
One of 250 numbered copies, this No. 174. A handsome edition of Jonson's lyrics, printed to commemorate the poet's tercentenary. Nearly all of the poems were printed from the first folio of 1616, collated with two copies held in the Bodleian Library. The type is Caslon's Old Face, printed on Batchelor's hand-made paper. The Cockerel watermark can be found on several pages.
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