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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
197457975London:: World's End Press 1974. First edition; No. 5 of 75 copies signed by Ann Brunskill; and one of 25 with seven original etchings. publisher's full white vellum by Bert Set in slipcase. A few slight marks to the vellum; boards very slightly bowed; light spotting and use to slipcase. Folio. Etchings by Ann Brunskill. French Text by Guillaume de Lorris. World's End Press, hardcover
174500007862London: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand; Printed for J. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand 1745. Sixth Edition; Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 vol. 12mo. 3 vi-cxi 1 296 2 pp.; 59 2-345 5 pp. I9 of Volume One signed A. Set bound in 19th century full red fine-grained morocco with gilt tooling and ruling to the boards. Spine has six gilt rules with the title in gilt on each spine; the Fables has the year 1745 in gilt on its spine. All edges gilt beautiful marble endpapers and pastedowns. Finely bound by Cecil and Larkins. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and a copper-engraved portrait of Charles the Earl of Middlesex and portrait of the bust of Persius illustrated with an additional 23 engraved plates. Volume two illustrated with a frontispiece title page printed in red and black. Packer 29. Text internally very clean the boards are in exceptional condition. A beautiful set of two collections of stories from some of the greatest authors in the Western canon with translations from one of the greatest translators of Classical literature. A Near Fine set with moderate age-darkening to the spines else a lovely set of eighteenth century literature. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand; Printed for J. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand hardcover
197844502Guildford: Circle Press Publications 1978. Limited edition no. 1 of 250 copies initialled by King folio xii 57 3 pp. Vignette to title and 14 full page illustrations. Original blue cloth darker blue cloth slipcase with very minor wear. Accompanying the book is a card folder containing 18 of 20 loose prints each numbered "I A.P." Artist's Proof and titled and signed by King held in separate paper folders with a printed verse or "prose comment" by Roy Fisher Andrew Crozier Kevin Power or Keith Please all in excellent condition the card folder a little scuffed. The two missing prints are nos. XV and XVIII - The Wife of Bath's Horse and The Manciple. Originally produced for Editions Alecto in 1967 this second edition apparently appeared in 20 separate runs of 250 copies each with a different single print as well as 50 Artist's Proof copies. This copy would not appear to have been one of the latter despite being matched with a set of the separate prints. (Guildford): Circle Press Publications unknown
195838858New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1958. First edition. Fine in near-fine jacket. Signed first printing of Cooney's adaptation of Chaucer a modern take on the Middle Ages fable and Caldecott Award Winner. 10'' x 7.25''. Original full red cloth front board elaborately stamped in black with ornamental border and central rooster motif. In original unclipped $3.00 color pictorial dust jacket. Blue and red patterned pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Cooney throughout in bright color. 36 pages. Signed by Cooney. With barely visible evidence of seal removal on front panel of jacket. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown
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
1866012551London: Bell and Daldy 1866. Complete set. 250 copies printed before sterotyping for subscribers only. This being copy numbered 62. Books measure 19.5x13.5.cm. Bound in original publishers red cloth with paper title labels. Cloth rubbed wear loss on head and tail of spines some loss to paper title labels other minor wear or nicks. Generally bindings in good condition. Internally some hinge joints split a few gatherings working loose. Pages in good clean condition. A good set. C2. Cloth. Good Plus. Small 8 Vo. Bell and Daldy Hardcover
1863927E9London: Griffin Bohn & Co. 1863. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 7". Multiple inc. Jean-Antoine Watteau George Barrett Sr. Sir Thomas Lawrence J. M. W. Turner David Roberts Sir William Boxall. An uncommon edition of this discerning and richly illustrated anthology of poetry edited by Robert Bell. Uncommon.In full morocco binding with abundant gilt decoration and gilt fore edges. Marbled pastedown and marbled free endpaper at the front and rear of the work. Illustrated throughout with 66 monochrome vignettes replicating the work of several celebrated artists including J. M. W. Turner Jean-Antoine Watteau Thomas Stothard George Barrett Sr. and David Roberts. Collated complete. Printed by R. Clay Son and Taylor. Richard Clay I's son and partner in the printers Charles John Clay played an important part in the history of Cambridge University's printing and press. This is a discerning anthology of poetry which brings together the work of more than 150 poets with its golden leaves featuring excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Marriage of Patient Grissel' Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Song of the Pixies' John Donne's 'A Lecture upon Shadows' John Milton's 'L'Allegro' Lady Mary Wortley Montague's 'The Lover' three of William Shakespeare's sonnets Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'The Cloud' and Alfred Tennyson's 'Break O Sea'. Edited by Robert Bell. In decorated full morocco binding. Externally very smart with good colour to the binding on the boards barring a touch of browning to the spine; gilt decoration and edges bright. The odd wormhole to the front and rear boards. Slight rubbing to the front board and to the bottom edge. Slight bumping to the corners and to the head and tail of the spine. Slight loss of marbling on the front and rear free endpapers at the hinge. Hinges strained. Internally firmly with generally bright and clean pages. Some toning and spotting throughout First front free endpaper blind stamped with 'James Davies Bookseller Bath'. Richard Clay printer's mark on front blank. One minor closed tear to the first free rear endpaper not impacting text. Very Good Indeed Griffin, Bohn & Co. hardcover
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. The Riccardi Press hardcover
19001019London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co 1900. Publishers Decorative Cloth Binding. Near Fine. Hugh Thomson. Near Fine condition beautifully bound in publishers ornate bright gilt cloth. Binding and hinges are excellent internally bright with light sporadic foxing profusely illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Book measures 8.5"x6.25". No publication date stated - circa 1900. A beautiful example in great condition. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co unknown
190556423Cambridge: University Press 1905-07. Limited Edition. Octavo 27cm. 7 vols in original quarter vellum with grey paper over boards printed vellum label on fronts; plain endpapers; photogravure facsimile plates. 3 vols with the bookplate of George Parker Winship. With Cambridge University Press order forms and publication announcements laid in. Straight copies with light shelf wear a few board corners reinforced with varnish occasional scattered foxing but largely clean: Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> 7 of a series of 12 facsimiles of scarce English incunabulae published by the Cambridge University Press in the early 1900s. Many of the originals were small pamphlets known only in one copy. 250 copies were printed of each volume of which 200 were for sale. This set from the library of George Parker Winship with his bookplate in three of the seven volumes. <br /> <br /> 1. CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Story of Queen Anelida and the False Arcite. 1905. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477." 28pp n.p. With the Winship bookplate. Mostly unopened. <br /> <br /> 2. The Book of Curtesye. 1905. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the Year 1477." 36pp. With the Winship bookplate. Mostly unopened. <br /> <br /> 3. BETSON Thomas. A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges of Holy Men. 1905. The original "Printed in Caxton's house by Wynken de Worde about 1500." 42pp; three illustrations and printer's device. <br /> <br /> 4. BURGH Benet trans. Parvus Cato Magnus Cato. 1906. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477." 76pp. Unopened. <br /> <br /> 5. LYDGATE John trans. The Churl and the Bird. 1906. The original "Printed by William Caxton about 1478." 28pp. Mostly unopened. With the Winship bookplate.<br /> <br /> 6. LYDGATE John trans. A Lytell Treatyse of the Horse the Sheep and the Ghoos. 1906. The original "Printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about 1499." 30pp; one illustration and printer's device. <br /> <br /> 7. The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost. 1907. The original "Printed at Westminster by Wynken de Worde about the year 1496." 46pp; two illustrations and printer's device. With a small auction description laid down on front pastedown. University Press unknown
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
201020784London: The Folio Society 2010. Book. Illus. by Eric Gill. Near Fine. Hardcover. A facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1928-1931. Thick 4to. 768 pages. Dimensions 12 ½" x 7 ¾". Limited to 1980 numbered copies this is 456. Bound in Nigerian goatskin leather. Blocked in 24-carat gold. All edges gilt. Black satin ribbon marker. Essay by Peter Holliday included. Both volumes are in fine condition. The clamshell box is stretched and a bit frayed in two corners inside otherwise fine. A lovely production from the Folio Society. The Folio Society Hardcover
06637London: The Folio Society 2011. Golden Cockerel Reborn - A Monument of English Private Press Printing"<br /> No. 22 of 1250 Copies - The Folio Society Facsimile in Full Goatskin<br /> <br /> CHAUCER Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde. Edited by Arundell Del Re. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. London: The Folio Society 2011.<br /> <br /> "This Facsimile Edition." Limited to 1250 numbered copies this example no. 22.<br /> <br /> Folio 12 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 311 x 191 mm. xii 1-309 1 2 blank 1 limitation statement 1 blank pp.<br /> <br /> Illustrated throughout with Gill's celebrated wood engravings originally printed at the Golden Cockerel Press under the direction of Robert Gibbings.<br /> <br /> Printed in Germany by Memminger MedienCentrum on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper. <br /> <br /> Elegantly bound by G. Lachenmaier in full black goatskin over beveled boards covers decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower smooth spine gilt-lettered blue endpapers all edges gilt silk marker.<br /> <br /> With: <br /> <br /> The Golden Cockerel Press Troilus and Criseyde. Essays by Roderick Cave and Barry Windeatt. London: The Folio Society 2011.<br /> <br /> Folio 12 1/4 x 8 inches; 311 x 204 mm. 1-6 7-48 pp. Photogravure frontispiece and three additional photogravure illustrations. <br /> <br /> Quarter black cloth over blue boards front cover with printed paper label.<br /> <br /> Together housed in the original black cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. A mint as new set.<br /> <br /> A meticulous and highly successful facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press masterpiece of 1926-27 widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century English private press printing - this Folio Society edition faithfully reproduces the scale typography and visual rhythm of the original.<br /> <br /> Gill's wood engravings - at once austere lyrical and unmistakably modern - rank among his finest book illustrations perfectly complementing the courtly intensity of Geoffrey Chaucer's great tragic romance. Printed on fine mould-made paper and bound in full goatskin the present facsimile succeeds not merely as a reproduction but as a convincing continuation of the Golden Cockerel aesthetic.<br /> <br /> The accompanying scholarly volume with essays by Cave and Windeatt provides important bibliographical and literary context further enhancing the set's appeal to collectors. London: The Folio Society, 2011 unknown
1913297651London: Riccardi Press 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; gray cloth portfolio with titling in gilt to the cover with silk tie; with 36 mounted color plate by W. Russell Flint all with captioned tissue guards; the plates are a duplicate set produced for the original limited edition.~~With two bookplates for Willis Vickery an Ohio jurist and a serious collector of books; his library was sold in 1933. There is also a rubber stamp for the Hearst Memorial Library which we have not been able to access. Very Good binding. Riccardi Press unknown
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
2008318895London: Folio Society 2008. Limited. hardcover. fine. Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris. A faithful reproduction of William Morris' Kelmscott Chaucer with the famous eighty-seven wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. 559 pages including an afterword essay on the Kelmscott Chaucer by William S. Peterson. Handsomely printed throughout in red & black on special heavy paper commissioned from the James Cropper Mill; uncut edges top edge gilt. Elephant folio burgundy cloth with elaborate gilt-stamped designs by William Morris protected in a printed board slipcase. London: Folio Society 2008. A fine copy as new.<br/> <br/> William Morris's masterpiece: The Kelmscott Chaucer. "The most beautiful of all printed books" -- W.B. Yeats<br/> <br/> Folio Society unknown
1958160796New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Fair sized owner personalization on half title page. 1/4 inch open tear 1 inch closed tear at bottom of front panel.; Signed by Barbara Cooney on title page.; Signed by Author. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover
2008xovs142<p>Folio Society 2008. hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. Oversized Hardcover with slipcase. Book is in excellent condition text is unmarked and pages are tight.</p> Folio Society hardcover
109882London The Mandrake Press 1929. . First edition printed on Japon vellum; 8vo; black letter illustrations by Pearl Binder in red and black minor age-toning light offsetting to endpapers else unmarked internally; publisher's cream paper covered boards pictorial vignette and title to upper board in black titles to spine in black boards slightly rubbed and marked original glassine wrapper torn with loss; overall very good.<br /> One of the two scarce 'black letter booklets' published by P.R. Stephensen's short-lived Mandrake Press. Illustrated by Pearl Binder.<br /> London, The Mandrake Press, 1929. hardcover
183011357<p>William Pickering. London. 1830. SECOND PICKERING EDITION. FIVE VOLUMES Complete. 8vo. 7.6 x 4.9 inches. A nice bright wide margined set. Portrait of Chaucer and Stothard's engraving of the Canterbury pilgrimage as frontis in volume one. A very good clean set. Fine leather bindings by Bayntun Riviere of Bath. Mid twentieth century half tan calf. Spines with five raised bands each with gilt wavy line decoration. Compartments ruled in gilt. Red and tan labels ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Tan cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of volume one. A coupld of minor scratched to the labels but overall a fine decorative set.</p> William Pickering. London. 1830 hardcover
17001008H5London: Jacob Tonson 1700 . First edition. Leather. Good. 12" by 7.5". None. The first edition of Dryden"s final major work translating classical and medieval sources into influential Augustan verse in a contemporary full calf binding. In a contemporary full calf binding. Half-title is present. First edition.A volume of fables translated by John Dryden. John Dryden's important collection of classical and medieval poetry translated here by himself. This was Dryden's last and one of his greatest works.Including the poetry of Ovid Geoffrey Chaucer Giovanni Boccaccio and Homer with selections from their works 'Iliad' 'Metamorphoses' and 'The Canterbury Tales' alongside some of Dryden's own works.The Chaucer works appearing in this work were modernised by Dryden who confessed that he didn't understand Chaucer's Middle English prosody which he proclaims to in the preface.With this work Dryden aimed to increase the reputation of English literature by adapting these classic works. All the translations to this work are in Dryden's heroic couplet.John Dryden was a popular seventeenth century English poet and literary critic. His talents in Restoration England landed him the position of England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. In a contemporary full calf binding. Externally a little worn. Hinges cracked with loss to calf. Front board almost detached holding at three cords loose but holding. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in loss to calf and slight loss to boards. Slight loss to head and tail of spine. Bookplate of Pakington Geo Tomkyns to front paste down. Slight loss to upper corner of front free endpaper. Hinges weak. Internally text block generally firmly bound. Hinges strained in places. Pages characteristically age toned but notably bright for the period. The odd spot heavier to first and last few leaves. One or two minor handling marks to fore edge. Slight loss to upper corner of final two leaves not affecting the text. Good Jacob Tonson hardcover
201122693Folio Society 2011. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus on Rigolette Panna paper with decorative title and borders and 5 full-page illustrations; main work handsomely bound in black full goatskin elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower gilt edges silk marker; Commentary Volume bound in boards with backram back the two volumes housed in publisher's solander case. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES. Sumptuous Folio Society reissue of the original Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927. The Commentary Volume contains essays by Roderick Cave on the history of the Golden Cockerel Press and Professor Barry Windeatt on the sources structure and interpretation of the poem. Folio Society, hardcover
2011mon0000075501The Folio Siciety 2011. Hardcover. Like New. in x in x in. Limited edition. The Folio Siciety hardcover
1830007323London: William Pickering 1830. Half Morocco. Very Good Plus. An elegantlly bound red half-morocco set of Chaucer. 5 vols. Small 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. Binding executed by G. P. Putnam's Sons with five raised bands gilt lettering on spine. Marbled paper pastedowns. Scattered mostly light foxing. A few scuffs on leather which otherwise is fresh bright attractive. William Pickering unknown
