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Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1929. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Four volumes: Pp. [iv]+152+[iv]+190+[iv]+198+[iv]+222(last colophon, verso blank), numerous woodcut marginal decorations and other illustrations by Gill, several initials printed in red or blue; small f'cap. folio; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown niger morocco, spines lettered in gilt, with raised bands, patterned papered boards, top edges of boards slightly browned, the fore-corners lightly worn, spines of first three volumes a trifle faded; t.e.g., others uncut; pencilled signature (C. M. Piggott) on upper free endpaper of Volume I, book label of David Levine, Sydney, on all upper pastedowns, a few of the outer blanks slightly foxed; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928-1931. One of 485 numbered sets, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. Chanticleer 63. *The native-dyed niger morocco often varies in hue, but this set is well-matched.…

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.