?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WITH AN ORIGINAL WOODBLOCK (GILL, ERIC.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. 4 volumes. Wood-engraved pictorial borders and red and blue initials by Eric Gill. Folio, original gilt-lettered, morocco-backed patterned boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; top edges gilt, spines darkened and dried (dampstained on Vols 1 and 4), boards browned and ends rubbed; scattered dampstaining to upper corners and contents, heaviest on Volumes 1-3. sold as is. (Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928-31)
number 341 of 485 sets. accompanied by an original woodblock used for border designs. The image on the block is of a draped woman caressing a bird, with a large leafed branch in the background. 184x40mm; 7 1/4x1 1/2 inches, Gill's carved initials visible on verso, though partially cut off by design of block; broken but re-glued in three places.
