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18831232941883. London: Bell 1883. <br /> <br /> 6 vols sm. 8vo full green crushed morocco extra red moire silk endpapers dentelles a fine set bound by Riviere with the backstrips uniformly faded as always to brown.<br /> <br /> § Second edition with alterations in the Text and Glossary. With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas. Issued in the Aldine Edition of the British Poets series. unknown
1886145246London: George Bell and Sons 1886. Finely bound Aldine edition of this collection of brilliant poetical works. Octavo six volumes bound in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within five raised gilt bands top edges gilt marbled endpapers decorated with botanical headpieces tailpieces and initials throughout. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities light toning to the text blocks and a bookplate to the front pastedown of Vol. VI. Edited by Richard Morris LLD with Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher and astronomer composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. George Bell and Sons hardcover
1852146338London: William Pickering 1852. The Aldine edition of Chaucer's brilliant poetical works. Duodecimo six volumes bound in full contemporary tan calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands all edges marbled marbled endpapers frontispiece portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer to Vol. I decorated with botanical headpieces tailpieces and initials throughout. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities front and rear panels very light toning to the endpapers of each volume. Edited by Richard Morris LLD with Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher and astronomer composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. William Pickering hardcover
1841355490721917London 1841. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: Whittaker & Co 1841. First UK Edition. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration cover decoration in blind cxlvii 1 errata 331 1 pages. Pale yellow contemporary end-papers. With the bookseller's ticket of James Bain 1 Haymarket to the rear paste-down. A VG copy with spine slightly faded spine ends pushed top edge a little dusty a tiny bump to the bottom left-hand corner of the rear board the merest touch of rubbing to the spine edges. Strong hinges. Pages really clean. NO previous owner book-plates or inscriptions. A collection of early 19th century translations of Chaucer into modern English by several notable authors of the time. NB: this is a First UK Edition from 1841 and NOT A MODERN REPRODUCTION. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
187890435London: George Bell and Sons 1878. Finely bound set of Chaucer's poetical works. Small octavos four volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt in six compartments within raised bands top edge gilt marbled endpapers tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Chaucer to volume one. In near fine condition. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher and astronomer composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. George Bell and Sons hardcover
1822122343W. Pickering Printer 1822-1846. Very Good. 8 volume leather bound set. 5 volumes of the Canterbury Tales 1822 with an introduction by T.Tyrwhitt Esq. Three volumes Romaunt of the Rose Troilus and Creseide and the minor poems with life of the poet by Sir Harris Nicolas 1846. 5 hub gilt decorated spines gilt accented boards edges and dentelles. Top edges gilt. Paisley end papers with previous owner's book plate to front paste downs. Please email for photos. W. Pickering Printer hardcover
1894155811Oxford: Clarendon Press 1894-97. An important precursor to the Riverside Chaucer First Skeat edition an attractively bound set of what remained the standard edition of Chaucer until it was superseded by that of F. N. Robinson in 1933. Skeat's "interpretative and historical notes were regularly consulted by editors working on the Riverside edition of Chaucer" ODNB. "All Skeat's vast output is distinguished by accuracy in matter of fact wide learning and humanity and most of it he produced without prospect of reward out of devotion to his subject. His own prescription for such monuments of scholarship was enthusiasm with unremitting application and he wasted no time" ibid. 7 vols octavo 220 x 140 mm. Frontispiece in vols I-IV as issued vol. III with 6 plates of diagrams. Contemporary red half morocco by Bickers & Son spines lettered and ruled in gilt sides and corners trimmed with gilt fillet marbled sides and endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed red silk bookmarkers. Light soiling to marbled sides a number of upper joints split at foot bindings remaining sound occasional foxing clean overall. A very good set. unknown
1896001577Hammersmith London: Kelmscott Press 1896. 4 i-ii 3 2-554pp. Later full pigskin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe raised bands spine in seven panels title in gilt to second panel publisher and date to foot remaining panels with thick and thin line borders a central tudor rose with lions above and below and fleur-de-lis to either side and small flower head corner pieces. Covers with thick and thin line borders tudor rose corner and side pieces with repeated lion and flower head tools in broken panels surrounding inner single line frame with fleur-de-lis corner pieces. Spine lightly browned minor rubbing to extremities internally bright and clean. Housed in a pigskin backed drop back box. The crowning achievement of Morris's press famous before it even came off the press one of four hundred and twenty-five copies printed on 'Perch' paper in 'Chaucer' and 'Troy' type in double column and in red and black. With wood engraved title borders and initials by C. E. Keates W. H. Hooper and W. Spielmeyer after designs by Morris and eighty-seven text illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones redrawn in ink by R. Catterson-Smith and engraved by W. H. Hooper. See Franklin page 201; Peterson A40; Tomkinson page 117. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good. Illus. by Burne-Jones Edward; Morris William; Harcourt Hooper William. Folio. Kelmscott Press Hardcover
