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Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. quarter niger over patterned paper boards gilt, with panelled spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, publisher's slipcase. Golden Cockerel Press. 4to. quarter niger over patterned paper boards gilt, with panelled spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, publisher's slipcase. (xi), 312 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 225 numbered copies (Chanticleer no.50; Gill 279). The slightest hint of rubbing to the corners of the boards. Publisher's slipcase with some rubbing and minor splitting along the edges, else a pristine copy. Printed in Caslon with black, red, and blue ink on Kelmscott hand-made paper. The margin of every page is decorated with a wood-engraving by Eric Gill. This volume shows Gill's remarkable affinity for Chaucer's works as well as his instinctive interpretation of the illuminated book. Of the three masterpieces (the…

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.