28


115


115. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes, & Other Poems. Golden Cockerel Press. 1928.


£998


Small folio. Original quarter sharkskin, spine lettered in gilt, buckram sides, top edges gilt, others uncut; pp. [iv] + 104; numerous wood- engravings by Robert Gibbings, title-page printed in red and black, initials printed in red and blue; a very nice copy.


One of 500 numbered copies, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper.


“An almost perfectly proportioned book, of which the Press is duly proud.” (Chanticleer 62).


116


116. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SWIFT, Jonathan. GIBBINGS, Robert (illustrator). Miscellaneous Poems. Edited by R. Ellis Roberts. Golden Cockerel Press. 1928.


£498


Crown 4to. Recently nicely rebound in half orange morocco, lettered up the spine in the gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings; a very nice copy.


One of 375 numbered copies.


117. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill. Printed and Published at the Golden Cockerel Press. 1929-31.


£8,000


Folio. 4 vols.; original quarter niger morocco, spines lettered in gilt, decorated board sides, top edges gilt, others uncut; many wood-engraved head-pieces, tail-pieces and leaf-spray borders by Eric Gill, initials printed in red and blue; slight variance in colour and grain of the spines, as often found, a little light spotting to front endpapers of volume II, otherwise a very good set.


Limited to 500 copies, this being number 155 of 485 copies on Batchelor hand-made paper. The format is uniform with that of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of Troilus and Criseyde, also illustrated by Eric Gill. These works, together with the magnificent Four Gospels, form three of the outstanding achievements of the British private press movement.


Evan Gill 281. Chanticleer 63 (“Beautiful Books!”).


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