The Homeric hymn to Aphrodite / a new translation by F. L. Lucas ... with ten engravings by Mark Severin

F.L. Lucas

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/2626

Author

Imprint

[London]: Printed in Great Britain at The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948

Physical Description

33 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm.

General Note

`Designed and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Poliphilus Roman and New Hellenic Greek types on Arnold’s mould-made paper. Composition and presswork under the supervision of F. J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press. Compositors: A. G. Douglas and A. W. Dick. Pressman: J. Bierman. The printing was completed on the twenty-second day of April, 1948. [Colophon].
Title page printed in red and black, with vignette of Aphrodite, within ornamental border. Wood-engraved frontispiece and twelve half-page wood-engravings by Mark Severin. Printer's device (Cockerel device) also by Mark Severin below colophon.

References

Golden Cockerel Press. Cockalorum, 177.

Copy Note

`The Edition is limited to 750 copies. Nos: 1-100 have been specially bound. Copy No. 52 of 100.’ [Colophon].

Binding Note

Bound in full red goatskin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with pictorial gilt decorations to upper and back cover. Lettered in gilt on spine: `The Hymn of Aphrodite.’

Subject

Illustrated books

Contributors

Mark Severin, illustrator, engraver
Christopher Sandford, publisher
F.J. Newbery, printer
The Golden Cockerel Press, publisher
Chiswick Press (London), printer
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder