Golden Cockerel Press
The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I ….
[Waltham St. Lawrence]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931.
Price:
$18,500.00
Gill. Number 132 of 488 numbered copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper, from a total edition of five hundred copies. 64 wood-engraved illustrations and initials printed from the blocks by Eic Gill. 1 vols. Small folio. Original three-quarter white pigskin and tan polished buckram by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut. Slightest evidence of handling, but FINE. In original slipcase, which is stored separately in custom 2-part linen slipcase with chemises. Eric Gill, 285; Chanticleer 78; Artist & the Book 122; From Manet to Hockney 89.
Item #377229
One of Eric Gill's masterpieces as an illustrator. "Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves BIBLE and the Kelmscott CHAUCER. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator … the book among all books in which the Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration" (Chanticleer)
One of the greatest book productions of the Twentieth Century, in miraculously frest, bright condition.
Item #377229
One of Eric Gill's masterpieces as an illustrator. "Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves BIBLE and the Kelmscott CHAUCER. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator … the book among all books in which the Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration" (Chanticleer)
One of the greatest book productions of the Twentieth Century, in miraculously frest, bright condition.
