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Golden Cockerel Press. (Rutter, Owen.).

The First Fleet.

Golden Cockerel Press. (Rutter, Owen.). The First Fleet. The Records of the Foundation of Australiafrom its conception to the settlement at Sydney Cove. Compiled from the original documents in the Public Record Office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an Introduction and Notes by Owen Rutter. Golden Cockerel Press, London 1937, limited to 375 copies. 4to, 151pp, 5 wood engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. Printed on Arnold's hand-made paper in Perpetua type, with four reproductions of documents. Full blue buckram with cream buckram panel, stamped in gold. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. (Bibl. of the Golden Cockerel Press #123). [WITH] the prospectus loosely inserted, 2pp, white laid paper, 1937, published "To Commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Foundation of Australia, and as a salute from England to the Commonwealth." Cock-A-Hoop p.123. A FINE COPY.

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