Golden Cockerel was an English private press, founded in 1920 by Harold Midgley Taylor in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, not far from Reading. For printing historians it is notable mainly for the nine-year period under its second proprietor, Robert Gibbings. In 1928-1929 Eric Gill was commissioned to produce a typeface for the press, the type that would be known simply as “Gold... All
Golden Cockerel was an English private press, founded in 1920 by Harold Midgley Taylor in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, not far from Reading. For printing historians it is notable mainly for the nine-year period under its second proprietor, Robert Gibbings. In 1928-1929 Eric Gill was commissioned to produce a typeface for the press, the type that would be known simply as “Gold... All