Shelfmark
Lx.2.04 - Lx.2.07
Author
Title
The Canterbury tales / by Geoffrey Chaucer; with wood engravings by Eric Gill.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire : Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXIX-MCMXXXI [1929-1931].
Physical description
4v ([4], 150, [2] ; [4], 188, [2] ; [4], 196, [2] ; [4], 218, [4]p) : ill. (engravings) ; 31cm.
Note
Text of the Oxford University Press edition edited by Walter W. Skeat.
Note
Printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings.
Note
Paper has horizontal chain lines ; watermarked ; deckled edges.
Note
Original brown morocco quarter-binding with green, orange, and cream decorated paper boards and gilt lettering on spine.
Note
ECL copy: No. 456 of 500 copies, being one of 485 copies on paper.
Note
Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Provenance
All vols with armorial bookplate of Eton College Library.
Subject
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Subject
Tales, Medieval.
Added entry--name
Gill, Eric, 1882 - 1940 engraver.
Added entry--name
Gibbings, Robert, 1889 - 1958 printer.
Added entry--name
Gibbings, Moira printer.
Added entry--name
Skeat, Walter W., 1835 - 1912 (Walter William) ed.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Berkshire Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Identifier
B24895