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CHAUCER, Geoffrey; GILL, Eric; FOLIO SOCIETYBiblio.com

Canterbury Tales The

réf. 06638London: The Folio Society 2010. One of the Great Books of the Twentieth Century" No. 8 of 1980 Copies - A Superb Folio Society Facsimile CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. London: The Folio Society 2010. "This Facsimile Edition." Limited to 1980 numbered copies this example no. 8. Folio 12 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 308 x 191 mm. 1-7 8-764 2 1 limitation statement 1 blank pp. Illustrated throughout with Gill's celebrated wood engravings originally printed at the Golden Cockerel Press under the direction of Robert Gibbings. Printed in Germany by Memminger MedienCentrum on Corolla Classic Watermark laid paper. Elegantly bound by G. Lachenmaier in full black goatskin boards front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower smooth spine gilt-lettered blue endpapers all edges gilt silk marker. With: The Golden Cockerel Press The Canterbury Tales. Decoration and the Mise en Page. Essay by Peter Holliday. London: The Folio Society 2010. Folio 12 1/4 x 8 inches; 311 x 204 mm. 1-6 7-48 pp. Frontispiece and ten illustrations in the text. Quarter black cloth over blue boards front cover with printed paper label. Together housed in the original black cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. With the original "Two Sample Pages" in black paper folder and the publisher's four-page prospectus. A mint as new set. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press Canterbury Tales 1929-31 widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century private press printing. This Folio Society production faithfully recreates the scale typography and mise-en-page of the original preserving the remarkable integration of text and image conceived by Gibbings and Gill. Gill's wood engravings - bold architectural and deeply expressive - rank among his most important book illustrations bringing a modern vitality to Geoffrey Chaucer's great pilgrimage narrative. The present edition printed on fine laid paper and bound in full goatskin succeeds not merely as a reproduction but as a worthy modern counterpart to the Golden Cockerel original. The accompanying essay volume by Holliday offers a detailed examination of the book's decoration and design further enhancing the set's bibliographical interest while the inclusion of the rarely preserved prospectus and sample leaves adds an additional layer of completeness and appeal. Examples of the original Golden Cockerel Press Canterbury Tales are now firmly in the realm of major private press collecting. This facsimile - particularly in such pristine condition and with its ancillary material intact - offers a compelling alternative: a museum-quality presentation of one of the defining illustrated books of the twentieth century at a fraction of the cost. London: The Folio Society, 2010 unknown

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CHAUCER, GeoffreyBiblio.com

Canterbury Tales

1929réf. 69547Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press 1929. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS; GILL EricSANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE. With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER Geoffrey. GILL Eric illustrator. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE binder. The Canterbury Tales. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press 1929. Full Description: GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press 1929-1931. One of 485 numbered copies on Batchelor handmade paper out of a total edition of 500 copies. This being number 381. Four folio volumes 12 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 310 x 190 mm. One full-page illustration twenty-nine half-page illustrations 269 decorative borders tail-pieces and line-fillers and sixty-one initial letters printed in black red or blue all engraved on wood by Eric Gill. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter niger morocco over patterned boards. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands. Top edges gilt others uncut. Spines lightly sunned to different degrees. Top of boards with some light sunning. Some minor rubbing to board edges. Previous owner's attractive bookplate on front pastedown of each volume which looks like a magician performing a trick in front of a book. Overall a handsome and desirable set which shows very well and the text is very clean. "Most of the borders are leaf and stem but among the leaves hiding or beckoning climbing or leaning out are girls and men kings and boys priests and nuns who take part or seem to be commenting upon the stories.the pattern continues affectionate and cheeky erotic enjoyable and relevant decorative and explanatory a balance of taste and eye. Borders are repeated sometimes in new combinations. To start a new tale we have more elaborate and descriptive work with a red or blue initial letter.There they are the characters in the tale with their stage scenery.One other quality in these borders should be noticed-their mannerism the distortion of human figures sometimes so that they almost share the forms of leaf and stem-and sometimes grow from them. It is another rather touching aspect of Gill's idea and all these manners work towards a single art-the poetry people leaves decoration and explanation. Author artist and printer have shared one concept and expressed it" Colin Franklin The Private Presses pp. 143-144. Chanticleer 63. Gill 281. HBS 69547. $10000. Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press unknown

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