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"The text follows ... [the Oxford University Press] edition by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat"--Colophon, v. 4.
"This edition ... was printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press ... Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C.…

Title from Physick bibliography.
Proof of an illustration on page 25, volume 4 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales (Berkshire : Golden Cockerel Press, 1931). Subsequently used as plate 56 of Gill's 'Engravings 1928-1933' (London : Faber & Faber, 1934).

Trial sheets comprising quire 'L' (pages 145-160) of the Golden Cockerel Press's edition of The Canterbury tales (volume 3), printed on vellum.
Wood engraved border illustrations by Eric Gill. Initial letter "W" has illustration. Initial letters…

Specimens of pages 49-50 and 63-64 of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
Includes Gill's engravings: Naked girl looking back (P424), page 49; Cupid, bow on tree (P446), page 50; Harpy facing left (P452), page 63;…

"Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press ... from the first edition ... Three capitals designed by Edward Johnston & engraved by Noel Rooke & A.E.R. Gill. 250 copies on paper & 15 on vellum. Compositor: J.H. Mason. Pressmen: H. Gage-Cole…

Six trial settings comprising the only evidence that T.J. Cobden-Sanderson considered printing Dante's Inferno at his Doves Press. Each sheet opens to two small quarto pages numbered 4 and 5. The text is from lines 1-54 of Canto I (one sheet with…

Comprises both single leaves and gatherings of 2 and 4 leaves, all from volume 1 ("The translators to the reader" and the opening of Genesis). Dates range from 1901 to 1903. Includes first and second specimen pages sent to subscribers in 1901 and…

"Impressa sunt in chartis 40 exemplaria et 8 in membranis. Veneunt apud Prelum Ashendenianum, in domo Impressoris, Chelsea, Londini"--Colophon.
Colored initials filled in by hand by Graily Hewitt. Cf. Hornby.

"Drawings for the illustrations to La Commedia di Dante shewn on the three following pages were made by R. Catterson Smith from the woodcuts of the edition of La Commedia printed at Venice in the year 1497 by Piero de Zuanne. It was necessary to make…

First page of Ashendene Press's Tutte le opere di Dante Alighieri fiorentino, which shows the initial "N" and a woodblock illustration,