Lot 160
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: £2,400
Description
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, number 183 of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engraved pictorial title, decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red and blue, bookplate of W. & P.J.Kupfer, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spine a little rubbed and faded, small nick to edge of one raised band, [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 183 of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engraved pictorial title, decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red and blue, bookplate of W. & P.J.Kupfer, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spine a little rubbed and faded, small nick to edge of one raised band, [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.
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