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Creator:
Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, 1740?-1794
Title(s):
Maxims and considerations of Chamfort / translated, with an introduction, by E. Powys Mathers.
Published/Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PQ1963.C43 A72 1926
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This book was printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire, and completed on the 30th day of June, 1926. Compositors: F. Young & A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 550 copies."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 41
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 134 of 550. Bound in quarter parchment and blue boards.
Subject Terms:
Aphorisms and apothegms.
Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, 1740?-1794.
Maxims, French -- Translations into English.
Printing -- Specimens -- England, 20th Century, London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1926.
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Contributors:
Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892–1939, writer of introduction.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
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