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Creator:
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
Title(s):
A croppe of kisses : selected lyrics of Ben Jonson / chosen, with an appreciation, by John Wallis.
Additional Title(s):
Poems. Selections.
Published/Created:
London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Physical Description:
48, [4] pages ; 31 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2603 .C76 1937+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title page printed in red, green and yellow; colored initials.
"This selection of Ben Jonson's Lyrics has been printed to commemorate the poet's tercentenary by Christopher and Anthony Sandford & Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press,10, Staple Inn, London, and completed on Mid-summer's Day, 1937. The edition is limited to 250 copies."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 121
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 61 of 250. Bound in publisher's original red quarter morocco and beige canvas boards; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Subject Terms:
English poetry -- 17th century.
English poetry.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Poems.
Contributors:
Wallis, John, of Eastbury, Berkshire, compiler.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Sandford, Christopher, printer.
Sandford, Anthony, printer.
Rutter, Owen, 1889-1944, printer.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.
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