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The golden cockerel : from the tale by Alexander Puskin. [Made into a new English version and] illustrated by Edmund Dulac
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- New York : Limited Editions Club, [1950]
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- 41 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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- ocm03780678
- Limited ed. of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator.
- "Of this edition of 'Le coq d'or,' which has been made into a new English version and also illustrated by Edmund Dulac ... planned ... at the Fanfare Press, in London, under the direction of Ernest Ingham"--Colophon.
- "The ninth, of the fine books distributed to the members of this Club in the Nineteenth Series ... Dulac's illustrations are reproduced, in six printings, from color-plates made by the Sun Engraving Company ... text is composed in the 18-point size of monotype Poliphilus ... the paper used is the silky Basingwirk Parchment, made of Esparto grass at the Abbey Mills ... and the printing was done by the Triggs Color Printing Company. The binding is of a fine-quality Russian-red buckram, with the title stamped in gold and with A Golden Cockerel [metal plate] glinting resplendent on the front cover. Each copy is placed in a solander case which is decorated with a cockerel pattern created through silk screens in powdered gold"-- Publisher's announcement.
- Issued in a slipcase.