The Golden Cockerel Press Collection

From the first Golden Cockerel Press bibliography, Chanticleer.

April, 1921.  ADAM & EVE & PINCH ME.  12 tales by A.E. Coppard.  11pt. Caslon O.F. type.  140 pp. 7 ½ in. x 5 in. 550 copies.  340 bound in orange boards.  Price 4s. 6d. 160 bound in canvas or white buckram.  Price 6s. 2nd edition, July, 1921: 500 copies, bound in yellow boards, black backs.  Price 6s.  3rd edition, December 1921: 1000 copies.  100 bound in yellow boards, black backs, the remaining 900 sets of sheets taken over by Jonathan Cape and bound with his title-page, etc.  Price 7s 6d.

This foundation stone of the Golden Cockerel Press is an unpretentious little volume which nevertheless foreshadows much of its later and riper achievement.  It is scrupulously unaffected.  The Caslon Old Face type is set 'solid'.  The margins are suitably proportioned; and the title-page pleasant to the eye.  Copies of the 1st edition are now rare.  The colophon runs: 'The first book produced at the Golden Cockerel Press: Thisedition of 550 copies finished on Marth 9th 1921 & to be sold at the Office of the Press, by Messrs. Birrell & Garnett at 19 Taviton St., Gordon Square,London, W.C. & by all book-sellers'.  The colophon of the 2nd edition, finished on July 15th 1921, mentions that it is 'to be sold at the Office of the Press, Waltham St. Lawrence and in London by Birrell & Garnett'.