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Title:: The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion / a new translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones ; with illustrations by Dorothea Braby.
Alternate Title(s):: Mabinogion.
Published / Created:: London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.
Physical Description:: [2], 266, [2] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: "Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Caslon's Old Face type on mould-made paper, and finished on the nineteenth day of February. 1948. Composition and presswork under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press. Compositors: A.G. Douglas and C.H. Rae. Pressman: J. Bierman. The edition is limited to 550 numbered copies of which copies numbered 1-75 are specially bound."--Colophon.
Subject Terms:: Tales -- Wales. | Tales, Medieval. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Braby, Dorothea -- Autograph. | Jones, Gwyn, 1907–1999 -- Autograph. | Jones, Thomas, 1910–1972 -- Autograph. | Smith, Mary Priscilla -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:: Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Binders' stamps (Binding) -- Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Contributors:: Braby, Dorothea, illustrations. | Jones, Gwyn, 1907–1999, translator. | Jones, Thomas, 1910–1972, translator. | Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. | Chiswick Press, printer. | Newbery, Francis J., printer. | Sandford, Christopher, book designer. | Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.