Lot no. 4049
Golden Cockerel Press -
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Canterbury Tales. 4 volumes. With book decoration in wood engraving and woodcut by Eric Gill.
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-1931. 31.5 × 20 cm. Original brown half leather on 5 bands with gilt-stamped spine titles, coloured paper covers and gilt edges. With bookbinder's stamp: "Bound by S. & S. London" (Sangorski & Sutcliffe). (Spine minimally stained, corners somewhat bumped).
One of 485 numbered copies (GA 500). - With Gill's beautiful figurative and ornamental illustrations in the outer margin, modelled on the marginal decorations of medieval manuscripts. - Untrimmed on two sides. - A fine copy.
See original version (German) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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