Troilus And Criseyde By Geoffrey Chaucer; Edited By Arundell Del Re
Gill, Eric (Illustrator)
Published by Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1927
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Small Folio, 309 (1) pages. 32 x 20 cm. Limited editions, copy 107 of 225, (six copies on vellum), Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs, Pressman: A.C. Cooper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in same pattern style covers as The Canterbury Tales. Five full-page plates, sixty decorative borders and four tail pieces by Eric Gill. Printed in blue, red and black in Caslon Old Face type on Kelmscott hand-made paper. It is the first and considered the scarcest and the first of the three books produced by Gill and Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, having a relatively small limitation as the Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels (Edition of 500 copies). CHANTICLEER 50. GILL. 279. CAVE & MANSON. pp. 50 ff. RANSOM, p. 297. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, slight wear at corners, interior contents very bright, clean and fresh. Orig. quarter morocco spine and patterned boards. Teg. Very good. Seller Inventory # 23978
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Title: Troilus And Criseyde By Geoffrey Chaucer; ...
Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence
Publication Date: 1927
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Gil, Eric
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Troilus and Criseyde : by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by Arundell del Re ; with wood engravings by Eric Gill ; printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press at Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire England A.D. MCMXXVII.
Published by
The Folio Society, London, 2011
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Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. with wood engravings by Eric Gill (illustrator). Limited Edition. AS NEW - LIMITED EDITON NO 992 of 1250 COPIES : Accompanied by a 48-page commentary volume, quarter-bound in buckram with Merida paper sides: The Golden Cockerel Press Troilus and Cresyde: essays by Roderick Cave and Barry Windeatt. Facsimile edition. Originally printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press at Waltham Saint Lawrence in 1926-7, using the text from the Glode edition of 1898. Printed by Memminger MedienCentrum, Memmingen, Germany, on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper. Five full page illustrations. Elaborate title-page and decorative borders throughout. Edition limited to 1250 numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society, and 25 lettered copies which are not for sale. Bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather; front board blocked in 22-carat gold with a design by Neil Gower from Gill's original engraving; Merida Indigo end-leaves; all edges gilt; attached ribbon page marker; presented in a buckram-bound solander box. xi, 309 pages : illustrations (wood engravings, facsimiles) ; 32 cm + 1 commentary (48 pages). An unblemished example. Seller Inventory # 032004
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Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer Edited by Arundell Del Re With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill. 2 Vols. in Slipcase
Published by
Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty, Berkshire, 2011
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Hardcover
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Facsimile edition, after the original. 477/1250. Folio. 309 (2), 48pp. Original black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on cover and spine, gilt edges, with companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. Red initials. Historiated endpieces. Black ribbon marker. Companion volume with frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster, 1927. Exquisite publication and beautifully illustrated in margins with large drawings by Eric Gill. These drawing were perceived by the public as erotic. Modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece, printed on Rigoletto Panna felt-merked paper. "Troilus and Criseyde was originally printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926â"7, using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum, for the Folio Society, on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. (Colophon). The companion volume "Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem, published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations. " (Imprint). Contains notes at rear. Seller Inventory # 47394
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