Folio Society
Group of deluxe facsimiles
£1,386
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill, printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1929 [2010]. One of 1980 numbered copies, 2 volumes, folio, main volume in original black goatskin decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, supplementary volume (The Golden Cockerel Press, the Canterbury Tales and Eric Gill [by] Peter Holliday) in original quarter cloth, housed in original solander box;
Liber Bestiarum, 2008. One of 1980 numbered copies, 2 volumes, folio, main volume in original orange goatskin decorated in gilt, supplementary volume in original blue cloth, housed in original solander box;
The Poetic Edda, 2016. One of 980 numbered copies, folio, original dark red leather, original slipcase;
The Kelmscott Chaucer, 2008. Folio, original orange cloth gilt, original slipcase, pale mottling to covers, wear to slipcase