Lot 190
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, Evan Gill's copy, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927
Hammer Price: £5,000
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engraved pictorial title, decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red, blue and black, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spine lightly faded, rubbing to spine tips and bands, light wear to corners, mark to upper cover, very small dent to lower fore-edge, [Chanticleer 50; Gill 279], small folio, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927.
⁂ The first and scarcest of Gill's three great works for the Golden Cockerel Press, with a limitation half the size of The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels.
Provenance: From the collection of Evan Gill, purchased directly from the estate.
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engraved pictorial title, decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red, blue and black, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spine lightly faded, rubbing to spine tips and bands, light wear to corners, mark to upper cover, very small dent to lower fore-edge, [Chanticleer 50; Gill 279], small folio, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927.
⁂ The first and scarcest of Gill's three great works for the Golden Cockerel Press, with a limitation half the size of The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels.
Provenance: From the collection of Evan Gill, purchased directly from the estate.
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