GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - Theophile GAUTIER (1811-72). Mademoiselle de Maupin, [Waltham St Lawrence], 1938, 4to, 8 engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, original vellum-backed cloth. NUMBER 154 OF 500 COPIES. With another book from the same press. (2)

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - Theophile GAUTIER (1811-72).  Mademoiselle de Maupin. A Romance ... Translated by R. & E. Powys Mathers. [Waltham St Lawrence:] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. 4to (255 x 195mm). Title printed in blue and black, introductory sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 8 engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, printed on Van Gelder paper in Perpetua type (first plate [frontispiece] lightly offset onto title). Original vellum-backed blue cloth boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt with the publisher's cockerel motif stamped in gilt at the foot, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). ONE OF 500 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 154 OF 450 COPIES with 8 plates. Pertelote 131. With 2 other books from the same press, namely Henry Fielding's An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews (Waltham St Lawrence, 1926, 8vo, original buckram-backed paper boards gilt, NUMBER 257 OF 450 COPIES) and A Circle of Seasons. A Translation of the Ritu-Samhara of Kalidasa made from various European sources by E. Powys Mathers ([Waltham St Lawrence], 1929, large 8vo, engraved plates by Robert Gibbings, original tan buckram gilt, NUMBER 343 OF 500 COPIES, with Anthony Eden's old armorial bookplate). (3)