Item #377228 The Canterbury Tales. Eric Gill.
The Canterbury Tales (1/7) The Canterbury Tales (2/7) The Canterbury Tales (3/7) The Canterbury Tales (4/7) The Canterbury Tales (5/7) The Canterbury Tales (6/7) The Canterbury Tales (7/7)
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.