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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 burnt orange niger morocco, each upper cover gilt-tooled with a different Chaucerian design after Gill, spines gilt-lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt, metal clasps, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, original felt-lined folding buckram cases, small dampstain to upper cover of vol. 1, some wear to cases, occasional very light discoloration, mostly to vol. 1. NUMBER 15 OF 15 COPIES ON VELLUM OF ONE OF THE MASTERPIECES OF THE PRESS, from an 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. 143-44; 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 burnt orange niger morocco, each upper cover gilt-tooled with a different Chaucerian design after Gill, spines gilt-lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt, metal clasps, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, original felt-lined folding buckram cases, small dampstain to upper cover of vol. 1, some wear to cases, occasional very light discoloration, mostly to vol. 1. NUMBER 15 OF 15 COPIES ON VELLUM OF ONE OF THE MASTERPIECES OF THE PRESS, from an 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. 143-44; Gill 281.