Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. 4 volumes. Wood-engraved pictorial borders and red and blue initial letters by Eric Gill. Folio, original morocco-backed patterned boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; top edges gilt, others uncut, spines slightly dry and with a few areas of rubbing (mostly bands and ends), leather a bit unevenly darkened as often encountered, but still attractive; internally fine but for usual binding glue bleed-through on endpapers from spine; bookseller's pencil notes and tipped-in book description on endpapers of Volume 1. number 385 of 485 sets. Chanticleer 63. (Waltham St. Lawrence, 1928-31)