The History of Pompey The Little or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog No. 177 of 400 copies Golden Cockerel Press with illustrations by David Jones
Coventry, Francis; Jones, David
$110.00
Place Published: Berkshire
Edition: numbered limited edition
Date Published: 1926
Illustrator: b&w illustrations
Size: 8vo
Golden Cockerel Press edition of Pompey The Little, Francis Coventry’s 18th-Century novel narrated by a lap-dog; printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, and illustrated with wood engravings by David Jones (frontispiece and tailpiece); limited to 400 numbered copies of which this is No. 177; three-quarter cloth, text block untrimmed; introduction by Arundel Del Re; bookshop label to front pastedown, medium foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, and with some light occasional foxing in text, o.w. Good; boards rubbed, and with some small stains, cloth and gilt titling dulled to spine.







