The Canterbury Tales
( Eric GILL, illus ) ( GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS ) CHAUCER, Geoffrey
Illustrated by Eric Gill. [A Facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition. Commentary by Peter Holliday].
EDITION LIMITED TO 1980 COPIES WITH ESSAY AND PROSPECTUS
Published: Folio Society, [2010]
Stock code: 23142
Price: £440.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous illustrations, initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Gill in the text; full niger morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, silk marker, Commentary Volume bound in boards with buckram back, the two fine volumes housed in publisher's cloth solander case lettered in gilt.
EDITION LIMITED TO 1980 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 281). A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel masterpeice, widely regarded as the finest private press production of the period. The publisher's Prospectus is loosly inserted in the case.