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269, [1] pp. Wood-engraved initials, decorations and illustrations by Eric Gill, some full-page. 33x23.5 cm. (13x9¼"), original half pigskin and cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. No. 142 of 500 copies printed by Moira & Robert Gibbings on Batchelor hand-made paper.

One of the greatest of all private press books, considered by many the finest production from the Golden Cockerel Press, sharing status with the Kelmscott Chaucer, Ashendene Dante, and Doves Press Bible. "Conceived in the mind of Robert Gibbings, this is 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 best mated with any kind of illustration ..." (Chanticleer 78).