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Title(s)
Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.
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Additional Title(s)
De bello Gallico. English
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Published/Created
London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1951.
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Physical Description
311, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PA6235 .A2 1951+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Title vignette.
Head pieces.
Maps on front and end paste-downs. Printed by Edward Stanford Ltd.
"Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London. Composition and presswork by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh. The edition is limited to 320 numbered copies printed in Baskerville type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Nos. 1-70 are specially bound."--Page [4].
BEIN 2006 +382: No. 151. Bookplate, call no. label, and charge slip removed.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 55 of 320, signed by the editor and engraver. Bound in gilt-stamped red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. -
Subject Terms
De Chair, Somerset -- Autograph. | Gaul -- History -- 58 B.C.-511 A.D. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Rome -- History -- Republic, 265–30 B.C. | Webb, Clifford -- Autograph.
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Form/Genre
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Wood engravings -- 1951.
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