92. Pervigilium Veneris: The Vigil of Venus, translated by F.L.Lucas, number 26 of 100 copies , engraved aquatint pictorial titles and illustrations by John Buckland Wright, original citron morocco with blind-stamped frieze of cockerel running along top and bottom of boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, uncut, spine a little browned, upper board slightly soiled at fore-edge, cloth slip-case, [Pertelote 141], 4to, Golden Cockerel Press, 1939.
est. £600 – £800
“This is what I call a perfect print. The tone is sufficient and not too even. The lines have their full value and have slight tone or aureal round them, which will go on improving with age. It is of course greatly helped by the type of paper used, the ink, and the slight ‘burr’ left on the lines... This plate was printed cold, rag-wiped but not retroussé, and went once through the press...” John Buckland Wright quoted in Pertelote.