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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Canterbury Tales... with wood-engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence 1931. 4 vols., tall narrow 4to, original niger morocco-backed decorated paper boards, spines gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slight rubbing to corners and extremities of spines, occasional very faint offsetting of wood engravings. LIMITED EDITION, no. 238 of 485 copies on paper from the edition of 500, one full-page and 29 half-page illustrations, 267 quarter-borders, headpieces and ornaments, all wood-engravings by Gill, 61 initial capitals in blue, red and black. Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press 63; Franklin, pp. 141-44; Gill 281.

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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Canterbury Tales... with wood-engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence 1931. 4 vols., tall narrow 4to, original niger morocco-backed decorated paper boards, spines gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slight rubbing to corners and extremities of spines, occasional very faint offsetting of wood engravings. LIMITED EDITION, no. 238 of 485 copies on paper from the edition of 500, one full-page and 29 half-page illustrations, 267 quarter-borders, headpieces and ornaments, all wood-engravings by Gill, 61 initial capitals in blue, red and black. Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press 63; Franklin, pp. 141-44; Gill 281.