Golden Cockerel Press
The Canterbury Tales.
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-1931.
Price:
$11,000.00
First edition, Copy No. 374 of 485 copies (total edition of 500). Wood engravings by Eric Gill. 4 vols. Small folio. Volumes: 4. Original quarter brown niger morocco and patterned paper over boards. Uneven toning to spines, as usual, and some sunning around edges of boards, corners rubbed, interiors quite clean and bright. Evan Gill 281; Chanticleer 63.
Item #377228
Universally acknowledged to be one of Gill's greatest achievement, and deservedly sought after as one of the finest illustrated books of the twentieth century.
Item #377228
Universally acknowledged to be one of Gill's greatest achievement, and deservedly sought after as one of the finest illustrated books of the twentieth century.









