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Auction archive: Lot number 25

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929.

Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,127 - US$7,691
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 25

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929.

Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,127 - US$7,691
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., number 276 of 485 copies on paper, wood-engraved decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill initials printed in red, blue and black, leather book-label of Haven O'More, original russet morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spines of vol.2 & 3 a little darker and with small stains to that of vol.4, very slight wear to one or two tips of corners and spine ends (as usual) but otherwise a very fine copy, [Chanticleer 63], small folio, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31. ⁂ One of the masterworks of Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel Press.

Auction archive: Lot number 25
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., number 276 of 485 copies on paper, wood-engraved decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill initials printed in red, blue and black, leather book-label of Haven O'More, original russet morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spines of vol.2 & 3 a little darker and with small stains to that of vol.4, very slight wear to one or two tips of corners and spine ends (as usual) but otherwise a very fine copy, [Chanticleer 63], small folio, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31. ⁂ One of the masterworks of Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel Press.

Auction archive: Lot number 25
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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