
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ERIC GILL The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I, NUMBER 372 OF 500 COPIES, ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY GILL ('Eric G' within a small illustration of a chain and ball attached to the cockerel vignette on the title-page), 65 wood-engraved illustrations (some full-page), headlines and initials by Eric Gill, original white half pigskin over buckram boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., light soiling to spine, some spotting to sides [Chanticleer 78], folio, Waltham St Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931 Footnotes: 'The Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator, Eric Gill, the book among all books, in which Roman type has been mated with any kind of illustration' (Chanticleer). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing


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