Troilus and Criseyde

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A Golden Cockerel Press, in the publishers quarter morocco over patterned paper boards (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe), corners worn, edges rubbed, a few scratched to lower board. Spine, raised bands, blind tooling, gilt titles, some fading. Internally, all on hand made paper, half title, wood-engraved pictorial title, decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red and blue, t.e.g., remainder uncut, engraved armorial bookplate to fep (Peter Garnett Agnew - with some light foxing & offsetting to facing fep). An edition limited to just 225 copies. (305*190 mm). (Chanticleer 50; Gill 279). The first and scarcest of Gill's three great works for the Golden Cockerel Press, with a limitation half the size of The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels. And one of the most significant narrative poems of the Middle Ages, presented in the original Middle English.