Since 1928, the Golden Cockerel Press has been occupied almost
exclusively on one great work, the issue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in four volumes at twenty-five guineas the set. This work is handmade, both paper and binding. Es- pecially for this work, Mr. Eric Gill has done one hundred and fifty engravings whose clarity of line and masterly, execution show that artist at his best. At the time of the inception of this important work we expatiated on the beauty of the volumes, and can say little more now than to point out to our readers that the fourth and last volume is now issued. The production must rank as one of the most important of its kind in modern Europe. For the few who wish to pile Pelion upon Ossa, there is an issue of fifteen copies on vellum, bound in full niger leather, at one hundred and fifty guineas the set.
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