Name: Auction: Golden Cockerel Press The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 6930 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II

Our Autumn 2022 auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs included highlights such as an autograph letter from Oliver Cromwell on the marriage of his daughter, an exceptionally early album of photographic salt prints by Edinburgh architect Charles George Hood Kinnear, and a collection of autograph letters from John Ruskin to his acolyte Ada Hartnell.&nbsp;It also featured the&nbsp;Library of the Late William St Clair Part II, and an important collection of private press material including original artwork and sculpture by Eric Gill. &nbsp;

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Featuring the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II

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With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31. First edition, one of 485 copies on hand-made paper, 4 volumes, folio, original orange quarter niger by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe, patterned paper sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, decorative borders throughout comprising figures entwined in leaf sprays, occasionally extending into line-fillings, 21 half-page vignettes, one full-page illustration, tailpieces, initials printed in red, black and blue, bookplates (T. Birkett), corners bumped and worn [Evan Gill 281]

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Golden Cockerel Press

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Golden Cockerel Press

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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