Troilus and Criseyde
Edited by Arundell del Re and with wood engravings by Eric Gill.
- Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerell Press, 1927
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerell Press, 1927. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde. Edited by Arundell del Re and with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerell Press, 1927.
First Gill edition. One of 225 numbered copies, this being 180 Folio (12 x 7 1/2 inches; 306 x 189 mm). [4, blank], xi, [1, blank], 310, [2, blank], [1, colophon], [7, blank] pp. With five full page wood engravings by Eric Gill. Gill also contributed the distinctive figures-in-foliage fore-margin engravings. With initials and section titles printed in blue and red. This is the publisher's file copy, it has the Golden Cockerel Press bookplate on the front pastedown with the initals "R.G & M.G". These initials stand for Robert Gibbings, founder of the press. On the front free endpaper, there is a pencil inscription that reads "Return to/ C. Sandford/ Golden Cockerel Press/ Eye Manor/ Leonminister/ Herefordshire." Christopher Sandford was the proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press.
Publisher's quarter russet morocco over patterned paper boards. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine lightly sunned. Some rubbing to corners. Text very clean. Housed in the often missing publisher's drab board slipcase. Slipcase with some mild rubbing. Overall, a beautiful, near fine copy.
One of the three most important books from the Golden Cockerel Press (along with The Four Gospels and The Canterbury Tales) and the scarcest as the press run was smaller than the other two.
Chanticleer 50. Gill 279. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 297.
HBS 69619.
$14,500.
First Gill edition. One of 225 numbered copies, this being 180 Folio (12 x 7 1/2 inches; 306 x 189 mm). [4, blank], xi, [1, blank], 310, [2, blank], [1, colophon], [7, blank] pp. With five full page wood engravings by Eric Gill. Gill also contributed the distinctive figures-in-foliage fore-margin engravings. With initials and section titles printed in blue and red. This is the publisher's file copy, it has the Golden Cockerel Press bookplate on the front pastedown with the initals "R.G & M.G". These initials stand for Robert Gibbings, founder of the press. On the front free endpaper, there is a pencil inscription that reads "Return to/ C. Sandford/ Golden Cockerel Press/ Eye Manor/ Leonminister/ Herefordshire." Christopher Sandford was the proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press.
Publisher's quarter russet morocco over patterned paper boards. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine lightly sunned. Some rubbing to corners. Text very clean. Housed in the often missing publisher's drab board slipcase. Slipcase with some mild rubbing. Overall, a beautiful, near fine copy.
One of the three most important books from the Golden Cockerel Press (along with The Four Gospels and The Canterbury Tales) and the scarcest as the press run was smaller than the other two.
Chanticleer 50. Gill 279. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 297.
HBS 69619.
$14,500.
Details
Title
Troilus and Criseyde
Author
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Golden Cockerell Press: Waltham Saint Lawrence
Date
1927