Coppard, A. E.; Gibbings, Robert [engravings]; Gill, Eric [typeface designer]

CROTTY SHINKWIN: A TALE OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL A BUTCHER OF COUNTY CLARE [AND] THE BEAUTY SPOT: A TALE CONCERNING THE CHILTERNS

Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Limited First Edition, #144/500. Octavo; 67 pages; VG; quarter teal leather binding over patterned aqua cloth boards with gilt titling to spine; mild shelfwear to covers, including bumping and light rubbing to corners of spine; textblock clean with top edge gilt and decked fore and bottom edges; black and white engravings throughout; shelved case 9 3/4.

1365221

Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $125

NOTES

The Golden Cockerel Press (1920-1961) was an English fine press founded by Hal Taylor following in the footsteps of the English Arts and Crafts movement. "The Hundredth Story" was published when the press was owned and run by Robert Gibbings, who brought artist and typeface designer Eric Gill to the press. Gill's custom typeface for Golden Cockerel debuted in "The Hundredth Story," after which it became the press's standard. Coppard was deeply involved with the press after it published his first short story collection, "Adam & Eve & Pinch Me," in 1921, even briefly assuming management of the press between periods of ownership.