From the fourth Golden Cockerel Press bibliography, Cock-a-Hoop.
June, 1950. PASIPHAË By A.C. Swinburne. 6 copper-engravings by John Buckland-Wright. 40 pp. 9 x 5¾ ins. Bembo 13 pt. type. 500 numbered copies on mould-made paper. 100 copies in wine coloured vellum, with one extra engraving, price 6½ gns.
Among the greatest poets of antiquity Euipides, Propertius, Virgil, and Ovid all found in the legend of beautiful, tortured Pasiphaë, who loved a bull, a subject to evoke sublime verse, and Swinburne when he chose this theme was thus in noble company. Ignored by editors and critics, the poem is nevertheless comparable with his finest work, and it gave me much satisfaction that ours was the first correct printing of the text, carefully copied from the original manuscript in the British Museum.