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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - J. YUNGE BATEMAN OVID. The Metamorphoses... With Drawings by J. Yunge Bateman, NUMBER 65 OF 75 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, Golden Cockerel Press, 1958
23 March 2022, 12:00 GMT
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - J. YUNGE BATEMAN
OVID. The Metamorphoses... With Drawings by J. Yunge Bateman, NUMBER 65 OF 75 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with an additional suite of 14 plates (3 not printed in the book), from an overall edition of 200 copies, frontispiece, title vignette and 10 illustrations by Bateman, tan morocco by Mansell, sides with gilt design on red morocco oval onlays, gilt lettering and small cockerel motifs on spine, t.e.g., additional suite of plates in red cloth folder matching the slipcase, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1958
Footnotes
One of the 75 specially bound copies, with the additional suite of plates, including three erotic plates of female subjects not used in the book.
Provenance: Thomas Yoseloff (1913-2007), who purchased the Golden Cockerel Press in 1959; by family descent to vendor.