The Golden Cockerel Press was a major English private press operating between 1920 and 1961.
The press was famous for beautiful handmade limited editions of classic works produced to the very highest of standards. The type was hand-set and the books were printed on handmade paper, and sometimes on vellum. A major feature of Golden Cockerel books was the original illustrations, usually wood engravings, contributed by, among others, Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, John Buckland Wright, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Agnes Miller Parker, David Jones, Mark Severin and Eric Ravilious. The press was credited with having made a significant contribution to the revival of the British tradition of wood engraving. Books and Writers UK gives a very complete listing of the publications of the press.
Read more about Golden Cockerel Press: Hal Taylor's Foundation (1920–1924), Robert Gibbings Period (1924–1933), Christopher Sandford Period (1933–1959), Thomas Yoseloff Period (1959–1961), An Overview of The Golden Cockerel Press, Further Reading
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“But when the bowels of the earth were sought,
And men her golden entrails did espy,
This mischief then into the world was brought,
This framed the mint which coined our misery.
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And thus began th’exordium of our woes,
The fatal dumb-show of our misery;
Here sprang the tree on which our mischief grows,
The dreary subject of world’s tragedy.”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
“[I] delivered the Introduction of it to Baldwin, that I might say my book was at if not in the press on New Year’s Day.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)