Chaucer GeoffreyABAA
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1931318064Golden Cockerel Press 1931. Copy no. 358 of 485 copies total edition of 500. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in red black and blue. 4 vols. Small folio. Original quarter brown niger morocco and patterned paper over boards spines a little darkened hint of wear at corners but a fine copy. Gill Eric. Copy no. 358 of 485 copies total edition of 500. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in red black and blue. 4 vols. Small folio. Eric Gill's Canterbury Tales. Universally acknowledged to be one of Gill's greatest achievement and deservedly sought after as one of the finest illustrated books of the twentieth century. Golden Cockerel Press unknown books
192968192With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press 1929-1931. One of 485 numbered copies on Batchelor handmade paper out of a total edition of 500 copies. Stated "File Copy" on colophon page in lieu of a limitation number. Four folio volumes 12 x 7 1/2 inches; 307 x 190 mm. One full-page illustration twenty-nine half-page illustrations 269 decorative borders tail-pieces and line-fillers and sixty-one initial letters printed in black red or blue all engraved on wood by Eric Gill. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter niger morocco over patterned boards. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands. Top edge gilt others uncut. Spines lightly sunned to different degrees. A few very tiny chips to spines. Tips slightly bumped and with some rubbing. Housed in a morocco-tipped cloth slipcase. Overall a handsome and desirable set which shows very well and the text is very clean. ìMost of the borders are leaf and stem but among the leaves hiding or beckoning climbing or leaning out are girls and men kings and boys priests and nuns who take part or seem to be commenting upon the stories.the pattern continues affectionate and cheeky erotic enjoyable and relevant decorative and explanatory a balance of taste and eye. Borders are repeated sometimes in new combinations. To start a new tale we have more elaborate and descriptive work with a red or blue initial letter.There they are the characters in the tale with their stage scenery.One other quality in these borders should be noticedótheir mannerism the distortion of human figures sometimes so that they almost share the forms of leaf and stemóand sometimes grow from them. It is another rather touching aspect of GillÃs idea and all these manners work towards a single artóthe poetry people leaves decoration and explanation. Author artist and printer have shared one concept and expressed itî Colin Franklin The Private Presses pp. 143-144. Chanticleer 63. Gill 281. HBS 68192. $10000 Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1927318063Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press 1927. No. 143 of 219 copies of 225 total printed in black red and blue. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter niger morocco with pattered paper-covered boards t.e.g. slipcase. Spine just a touch faded minor rubs to corners small ownership signature to f.f.e.p but fine. Gill Eric. No. 143 of 219 copies of 225 total printed in black red and blue. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. 1 vols. 4to. One of Gill's finest. This book had the smallest limitation of all of Gill's major works. A lovely copy with Gill's richly sensuous illustrations and marginal decorations one of his greatest achievements. Ransom 47; Chanticleer A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press # 50 Golden Cockerel Press unknown books
19293589Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1929. First edition. One of 375 sets this being number 224 on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight folio volumes 267 x 184 mm. Handsomely bound ca. 1940 in full blue crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Rivière. Covers ruled in gilt spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edges gilt ruled turn- ins marbled liners and endpapers all edges gilt. Spines uniformly faded. Calligraphic half-titles title-pages and contents pages in red and black by Joscelyne V. Gaskin. Paragraph marks in red and blue first initial in gold other initials and sections headings printed in blue after designs by Gaskin some shoulder notes printed in blue occasional text printed in red and blue. Seventy hand-colored woodcut illustrations and twenty hand-colored woodcut diagrams. "A very handsome and attractive set of this fine edition.<br/><br/>A beautiful example of Chaucer's works. The figures of the Canterbury Pilgrims were freely drawn from the Ellesmere manuscript now in the Huntington Library by Hugh Chesterman. The miniatures in The Romaunt of the Rose were redrawn by Lynton H. Lamb from a fourteenth-century French manuscript MS. Egerton 881 at the British Museum. Other manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and Cambridge University were used for the illustrations to The Compleynte of Mars and A Treatise on the Astrolabe as well as for two portraits of Chaucer. Woodcuts from Richard Pynson's 1526 three-volume edition of Chaucer were redrawn by Lynton H. Lamb to illustrate A Parlement of Foules Troilus and Criseyde The House of Fame and The Legende of Good Women and woodcuts from Vincent's early sixteenth-century Lyon edition of Boethius were adapted for De consolacione philosophie.<br/><br/>Franklin 150 235. Ransom 16 no. 60. Basil Blackwell unknown books
1902004447London and New York: Edward Arnold & Sameuel Buckley 1902. 12mo full vellum binding with blind-stamped rose and motto "Soul is Form". Printed on vellum with hand-illumination by the Essex House Press. The prettiest and most illustrated work in the Great Poems Series. Text was once attributed to Chaucer. One of 165 copies. Slightly darkened spine gilt bright in a simple slipcase. One half page and one double-page illustration and 85 historiated initials all hand-colored by Edith Harwood. Colin Franklin: ". the most skilfull and original of the Series a charming small work of art. . Edith Harwood made and coloured the decorations which run happily through the pages. with people and flowers in greens and pinks purple and brown". Full Vellum. Fine. Illus. by Edith Harwood. 12mo. Edward Arnold & Sameuel Buckley Hardcover books
190222182London: Essex House Press Edward Arnold 1902. leather_bound. Full limp vellum. Near fine. 45 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Limited edition copy 94 of 165 printed on vellum with front cover Arts & Crafts rose in blind and entitled "Soul Is Form." Hand colored woodcut frontispiece plus a central two panel plate and elaborate colored initials throughout by Edith Harwood. Bookplate of Henry Walters Morrieson front cover pastedown. "The Essex House Press was then an Arts & Crafts press par excellence.it reveals more of Art Nouveau in many of the books than one would have expected from so devoted a follower of Morris." CAVE: PRIVATE PRESS p.125 noting Ashbee's work at Essex House. Slight cover soiling at top edges. Essex House Press (Edward Arnold) unknown books
190921761London: The Riccardi Press 1909. Hardcover. Very good. Flint W. Russell. The original gray cloth portfolio housing a duplicate set of all 36 color plates that W. Russell Flint produced for the original limited edition. This portfolio presumably accompanied one of the 12 copies printed on vellum. Mild rippling to plates and some edgewear to portfolio but a very nice set of a scarce item. None available online. <br/><br/> The Riccardi Press hardcover books
1930119841London: The Medici Society 1930. First edition of Eleanor Farjeon's modern adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Octavo bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers and all edges gilt elaborately illustrated with full color plates after the drawings of William Russell Flint including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown. A collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400 The Canterbury Tales is is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's magnum opus. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people composing the characters throughout the tales was without precedent in English and the work still offers a variety of insights into customs and practices of the time. The Medici Society hardcover books
1934295547New York: Covici Friede 1934. hardcover. fine. Kent Rockwell. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. xvii 627pp. Tall thick 8vo beautifully rebound in 3/4 burgundy morocco morocco ornately gilt spine t.e.g. New York: Covici Friede 1934. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Covici Friede unknown books
1928106052London: Johnathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd. 1928. Finely bound edition of The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer illustrated by William Russell Flint. Octavo bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt titles and central gilt motif of an armored knight on horseback gilt ruling to the panels top edge gilt gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers. Elaborately illustrated with full color plates after the drawings of William Russell Flint including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. A lovely example. A collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400 The Canterbury Tales is is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's magnum opus. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people composing the characters throughout the tales was without precedent in English and the work still offers a variety of insights into customs and practices of the time. Johnathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd. unknown books
1934292224New York: Covici Friede 1934. hardcover. fine. Kent Rockwell. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. xvii 627pp. Tall thick 8vo beautifully rebound in full tan morocco gilt-tooled spine. New York: Covici Friede 1934. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Covici Friede unknown books
1946169318New York: Heritage 1946. hardcover. fine. Color illustrations by Arthur Szyk. Tall 8vo handsomely rebound in tan backed marbled boards leather label gilt spine raised bands. New York: Heritage Press 1946. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Heritage unknown books
1912243274New York: Macmillan 1912. hardcover. near fine. Now First Put Into Modern English by John S.P. Tatlock and Percy MacKaye. 32 color plates with lettered tissue guards. Thick 4to 3/4 maroon morocco decorative boards. New York: Macmillan 1912. Near Fine.<br/><br/> The Modern Reader's Chaucer<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
1946018625New York: Limited Editions Club 1946. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrators. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xx 550 pages of text. Original white leather spine with illustrated boards; a few tiny scuff marks to the spine and minor shelfwear. Protected in fitted archival mylar. The matching slipcase is cracked at one seam with minor shelfwear. One of 1500 copies signed by Benton on the limitation page. Includes the Monthly Newsletter for the Limited Editions Club. The text is clean and unmarked. Minor stain to the closed page edges. First edition. Limited Editions Club Hardcover books
1984276557Manchester Center Vermont: Press of Elfriede Abbe 1984. Printed by Elfriede Martha Abbe --sculptor wood engraver and illustrator -- at her press in Manchester Center. One of 180 copies signed by Elfriede Abbe of which this is #76. In black cloth with a gold decorative stamp backed in gold silk with a foil label to the spine. Illustrated throughout with woodcut illustrations and additional decorative elements in gold black and grey. With prospectus laid in as well as Elfriede Abbe's curriculum vitae. A sumptuous production. Press of Elfriede Abbe unknown books
1952Embry 37766Oxford 1952. Occasional light discoloration or mild spotting spines with very minor and even sunning overall a very good to near fine set. Blue cloth no dust jackets. Seven volumes. Oxford, 1952. hardcover books
1972900961972. CHAUCER Geoffrey. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER 7 VOLS. London: Oxford University Press 1972. 8vo. Seven volumes. 568pp. 506pp 504pp. 667pp. 515pp. 445pp. 628pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt to spine. Fine in fine dustajackets. unknown books
19023064Guildford: A. C Curtis; the Astolat Press 1902. Original flexible vellum with gilt lettering and designs within a green-blocked central area. One of 25 Numbered Copies by the Astolat Press. Printed on fragile paper which has uniformly warped into an "S" shaped pattern. Scarce thus. <br/><br/> A. C Curtis; the Astolat Press hardcover books
192475747Wien: Artur Wolf Verlag. Very Good. 1924. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in green paper covered boards with gilt and black stamping to the upper cover with a gilt stamped white spine. The covers show light scuffing sunning to the edges edge-wear and rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The spine is scuffed and toned. There is some wrinkling to the upper cover. The text-block is cracked at a few spots showing the beginning of separation. The contents are bright and clean with very nice tipped-in color illustrations. . Artur Wolf Verlag hardcover books
1978WRCLIT67484Guildford: The Circle Press 1978. Folio. Cloth. Fine in very good modestly smudged slipcase. Second Circle edition though first in this format. One of 250 numbered copies in series III of XX series initialed by the artist with a separate poem by Kevin Power in an inserted folder accompanied by a loose print initialed by King. The Circle Press hardcover books
19301306908New York: Covici Fride 1930. Limited Edition #125/999. Hardcover. Folios 2 volumes; G; bound in publisher's beige cloth gilt lettering to front covers and spines; sun-fading to spines speckling to front cover of volume 1 rubbing and bumping to boards; with both Modern and Middle English in parallel columns; Signed by Rockwell Kent and numbered 125 on colophon; heavy please contact for shipping costs; shelved above case 2. 1306908. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Covici Fride hardcover books
1983290471Franklin Center: Franklin 1983. hardcover. near fine. Two volumes. Translation into modern English by J. U. Nicolson illustrations by Edward Coley Burne-Jones borders by William Morris. 1119 pages continuous pagination 8vo gilt-decorated green leather a.e.g. Franklin Center: The Franklin Library 1983. Minor spotting to the gilt edges else a fine copy.<br/><br/> 25th Anniversary Edition. Has the separately printed Notes from the Editors<br/><br/> Franklin unknown books
19033369<p> The Clarendon Press and Henry Frowde Oxford London and New York. 1903. Beautifully bound in three-quarter vellum over marbled boards. Octavo 732 pages plus useful 147 page glossarial index bound in at the back. Ornamental spine in the Art Nouveau style with gilt twining stem and flowers. Title and publisher labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endleaves matching the paper used on the binding. Pictorial frontispiece. Aside from minor soiling this is a superb example of the Book Arts that flourished at the turn of the twentieth century. This edition of Chaucer's work is edited from numerous manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat noted scholar and professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University. Prized for their beauty and representation of literary achievement these bindings have become difficult to find in fine condition. </p> The Clarendon Press and Henry Frowde hardcover books
1958WN31510Cleveland: The World Publishing Company 1958. A facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with the original 87 illlustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich with a glossary for the modern reader. Pigskin like leatherette binding with gilt spine lettering with blindstamping. Slight splitting of upper hinge. Unpriceclipped dust jacket has some soiling and rubbing. A stunning work. Extra postage will be due if mailed due to size and weight. Kelmscott Chaucer. Leatherette. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Facsimile. The World Publishing Company Hardcover books
1963249178San Francisco: Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy for The Book Club of California 1963. First edition one of 450 copies. Illustrated. Including an original leaf from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's Works at p. 24. xii 64 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Red cloth. Fine. First edition one of 450 copies. Illustrated. Including an original leaf from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's Works at p. 24. xii 64 pp. 1 vols. Folio. [Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy] for The Book Club of California unknown books
