Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(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 faded as often encountered, but still attractive; internally fine but for usual binding glue bleed-through on endpapers from spine; handsome custom cloth chemise and 1/4 green morocco gilt slipcase. number 166 of 485 sets. (Waltham St. Lawrence, 1928-31)