GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Canterbury Tales... with wood-engravings by Eric Gill Waltham Saint Lawrence 1931. 4 vols., tall narrow 4to, original burnt orange niger morocco, each upper cover gilt-tooled with a different Chaucerian design after Gill, spines gilt-lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt, metal clasps, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, original felt-lined folding buckram cases, small dampstain to upper cover of vol. 1, some wear to cases, occasional very light discoloration, mostly to vol. 1 . NUMBER 15 OF 15 COPIES ON VELLUM OF ONE OF THE MASTERPIECES OF THE PRESS, from an edition of 500, one full-page and 29 half-page illustrations, 267 quarter-borders, headpieces and ornaments, all wood-engravings by Gill, 61 initial capitals in blue, red and black. Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press 63; Franklin, pp. 143-44; Gill 281.
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Canterbury Tales... with wood-engravings by Eric Gill Waltham Saint Lawrence 1931. 4 vols., tall narrow 4to, original burnt orange niger morocco, each upper cover gilt-tooled with a different Chaucerian design after Gill, spines gilt-lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt, metal clasps, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, original felt-lined folding buckram cases, small dampstain to upper cover of vol. 1, some wear to cases, occasional very light discoloration, mostly to vol. 1 . NUMBER 15 OF 15 COPIES ON VELLUM OF ONE OF THE MASTERPIECES OF THE PRESS, from an edition of 500, one full-page and 29 half-page illustrations, 267 quarter-borders, headpieces and ornaments, all wood-engravings by Gill, 61 initial capitals in blue, red and black. Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press 63; Franklin, pp. 143-44; Gill 281.
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