7 DECEMBER 1929, Page 20

We have already told our readers at some length, arid

with pardonable enthusiasm, of the superb edition of The Canterbury Tales which is issuing from the press at the Sign of the Golden Cockerel, in Waltham St. Lawrence. The second and final volume has now appeared, and the price of the work is £6 6s. -Here is as beautiful "a hook as any English press has ever produced, and there will be a few happy collectors this Christmas, gloating, and fingering their new posseasion with sensuous joy. Less fortunate bibliophiles will have been able to see a copy of Volume I. in the recent exhibition of Modern Printing and Bookbinding from all countries. recently held in the British Museum.