Lot 164
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927
Hammer Price: £3,500
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, number 52 of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engraved pictorial title, decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red and blue, engraved armorial bookplate of Peter Garnett Agnew (foxed and lightly offset on facing front free endpaper), original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spine partly faded, a little rubbed, a couple of scratches to lower cover, [Chanticleer 50], 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.
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, number 52 of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engraved pictorial title, decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red and blue, engraved armorial bookplate of Peter Garnett Agnew (foxed and lightly offset on facing front free endpaper), original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spine partly faded, a little rubbed, a couple of scratches to lower cover, [Chanticleer 50], 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.
