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Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Title(s):
Troilus and Criseyde / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by Arundell del Re ; with wood engravings by Eric Gill.
Published/Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire, England : Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 309, [5] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR1895 .R45 1927+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Added engraved title page.
"This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire. Beginning on the 20th day of September, 1926, it was completed on July 22nd, 1927. Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 225 copies of which nos. 1-6 are on vellum."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 50
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 158 of 225. Bound in quarter niger and patterned boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Subject Terms:
Cressida (Fictitious character) -- Poetry.
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
Troilus (Legendary character) -- Poetry.
Trojan War -- Poetry.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Wood engravings -- 1927.
Contributors:
Del Re, Arundell, 1892-1974, editor.
Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958, printer.
Gill, Eric, 1882-1940, engraver.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.
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