The Golden Cockerel "Bountiana": Complete set of 6 volumes in 2 slipcases (Limited editions, custom-bound and signed)

A$4,500 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

RUTTER, Owen (ed.); BLIGH, William ; MORRISON, James ; FRYER, John (with FRYER, Mary Ann ) (illus. Robert Gibbings, Lynton Lamb, Peter Barker-Mill Averil Mackenzie-Grieve). The Golden Cockerel "Bountiana": A Complete Set of Six Volumes. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934–1939. 6 vols. in 5 (Vol. III comprising 2 vols.), housed in 2 slipcases. A complete assembly of the Golden Cockerel "Bountiana" series, entirely and distinctively rebound as a unified library. Royal Quarto. All six volumes uniformly rebound in full deep green crushed Morocco, with the two slipcases bound in matching leather to the head and tails and vellum panels to the sides. Covers of each volume and each slipcase individually embossed in a unique design on a nautical theme, corresponding to the contents of each book. Titles to spine raised and blocked in blind. Rear cover of each volume with embossed anchor device. Original publisher's spine strip from each volume preserved and mounted to the rear face of the corresponding slipcase, allowing the set to be displayed with either the rebound spines or the original Golden Cockerel "sail-type" cloth spines facing outward. Bookplate of Milton Whitmont to each volume. Binder unrecorded; no binder's stamp present. Few episodes in British maritime history have generated as sustained and as various a literature as the mutiny on His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty on 28 April 1789. Between 1934 and 1939, the historian Owen Rutter (1889–1944) assembled and edited w

• Binding: Hardcover

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