Troilus and Criseyde
( Eric GILL, illus ) CHAUCER, Geoffrey
[With Commentary Volume].
1250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Folio Society, [2011]
Stock code: 22693
Price: £490.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on Rigolette Panna paper, with decorative title and borders,, and 5 full-page illustrations; main work handsomely bound in black full goatskin, elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower, gilt edges, silk marker; Commentary Volume bound in boards with backram back, the two volumes housed in publisher's solander case.
EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES. Sumptuous Folio Society reissue of the original Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927. The Commentary Volume contains essays by Roderick Cave on the history of the Golden Cockerel Press and Professor Barry Windeatt on the sources, structure and interpretation of the poem.