Gill, Eric -- Chaucer, Geoffrey.

4 volumes, folio, number 118 of 500 copies, one of 475 on hand-made paper, initials printed in red, blue or black, final six lines of text in red, wood-engraved borders, initial letters and illustrations throughout all by Eric Gill, original niger-morocco-backed decorative paper boards, top edges gilt, collector's folding cases, slight rubbing at foot of spines

Chanticleer 63; Cave and Manson pp.53-55.

Condition is as described in the body of the cataloguing where appropriate.
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Publication of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales followed on from the highly successful edition of Troilus and Criseyde, the first of the great books produced by the Press, which Gill and Gibbings had worked on intensively for publication in 1927. Publication of The Canterbury Tales was regarded as a major literary event and was widely covered in the press throughout the four-year period. It proved a profitable title for the Press and one that enhanced its reputation.