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Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. No. 139 OF 225 NUMBERED COPIES on paper (and six on vellum). 318 x 203 mm. (12 1/2 x 8"). xi, [i], 309, [1] pp., [2] (blank and colophon) leaves.Edited by Arundell Del Re. Publisher's tan-morocco-backed patterned paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed on front pastedown), raised bands, gilt titling to spine panel, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In the original gray cardboard slipcase with printed title on the back (head and tail of back reinforced with tape). Pictorial woodcut borders to fore margins of every text page and FIVE FULL-PAGE WOOD ENGRAVINGS, all BY ERIC GILL. Section title pages with red or blue lettering. Occasional text initials in red or blue. Chanticleer 50; Gill 279; Cave & Manson, pp. 50 ff.; Ransom, p. 297. ◆A breath of rubbing to corners, trivial offsetting to free endpapers from binder's glue on turn-ins, but AN OUTSTANDING COPY with no signs of use inside or out. This is the finest copy…

Troilus and Criseyde is a Middle English poem by Chaucer retelling the tragic story of lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against the backdrop of the Trojan War.