THE FOUR GOSPELS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST according to the authorized version of King James I.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. With decorations by Eric Gill. Pp. [ii]+270(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), 645 wood-engraved illustrations and decorative initials (4 full page), large cockerel device on title page; f'cap. folio; half white pigskin, spine lettered and ruled in gilt with 5 raised bands, maize buckram boards, lightly foxed (as often), bottom fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised, very slight signs of professional cleaning to spine; t.e.g., others uncut; within the original card slipcase, which is lightly soiled and worn, the edges splitting, with signs of early repairs; binder's stamp at foot of upper pastedown and bookseller's sticker on lower pastedown, a couple of tiny spots to endpapers; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945. One of 488 numbered copies thus bound, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper (total edition 500). Chanticleer 78; Gill 285. *The first book printed from the 18-point size of the Golden Cockerel type designed by Eric Gill; regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century English private press books, and the masterpiece of the Golden Cockerel Press. 'The book among all books in which Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration' [Chanticleer, p. 36]. Chanticleer states 65 woodcuts, but Evan Gill (p. 119) notes the decorative initial N (on page 8), although from 2 separate blocks, forms one illustration.