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1602V74414London: Adam Islip 2nd Speght edition. 1602. Hardcover. Very Good. Title surrounded by elaborate woodcut border copperplate portrait of Chaucer surrounded by arms of his Progenie woodcut arms under 2nd Title & heading Knight's tale at Fol.I woodcut initials throughout. Portrait signed "IS" John Speed 1552-1629. Folio 320x210mm early 19th century calf edge panels & inner fleurons gilt marbled end-papers re-backed with original label & 3 gilt spine compartments laid on tips worn leather rubbed & marked All Edges Gilt. Collated complete except for initial blank: 23 of 24leaves Chaucer portrait surrounded by arms of his progenie supplied from another copy 376 14 leaves explanatory indexes final errata leaf 3U8. Black Letter English text throughout. Coat of arms bookplate Edward Micholls Henriques 1837-1901 first 4 leaves slightly foxed at edges else beautifully clean and crisp with good margins throughout. Second Speght edition much revised from his 1598 first with help from Francis Thynne 1645-1608 "the earliest in which thorough punctuation was attempted and in many other ways it is a distinct improvement upon Speght's first edition. Of two hitherto unprinted pieces added to this edition the 'Treatise called Jack Upland' is non-Chaucerian but the ABC is considered genuine" Pforzheimer 178; also referenced by STC 5080 2nd edition ESTC S107210. Adam Islip (2nd Speght edition). hardcover
163569319Oxford: J. Lichfield 1635. Full Description:<br> <br> CHAUCER Geoffrey. Amorum Troili et Creseidae. Libri duo priores Anglico Latini Oxford: J. Lichfield 1635.<br> <br> First edition. This is the first separate English edition and the "earliest translation of any part of Chaucer into another language." Early Oxford Press. Two books in one small quarto volume 7 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 180 x 137 mm. 26 1-105 1; 6 1 blank 24 1 25-96 89-159 1 blank pp. Text in both English and Latin with the English printed in black letter and the Latin in italic. The English text is from William Thynne's edition of "The Works." Woodcut head and tail-pieces and initials. Title within an elaborate woodcut border. Complete but with a few errors in pagination Pt. 2 p. 25 is misprinted 21; 26 is 25 and the error is carried to 96; 97 is 89 and the error is carried to the end.<br> <br> Nineteenth-century quarter brown morocco over marbled paper boards. Corners tipped in vellum. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge brown others speckled red. Page 2 trimmed close at top edge just touching page number. Small holes in leaves D3 and E just touching a few letters. Some old ink marginalia to leaf Ee. Previous owner's armorial bookplate. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> A translation by Sir Francis Kinnaston of books 1-2 of "Troilus and Criseyde" by Geoffrey Chaucer. The preliminary leaves include a dedication to Patrick Young and poetry by various authors dedicated to Chaucer and Kinnaston.<br> <br> Provenance: Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington 1877-1950 Cambridge literature lecturer; published a bibliography of Victorian poet critic and historian John Addington Symonds.<br> <br> ESTC S107787<br> <br> HBS 69319.<br> <br> $6500. J. Lichfield unknown
16027296London: Printed by Adam Islip 1602. Second Speght edition. Near Fine. Second appearance of the Thomas Speght edition of Chaucer and the seventh edition of Chaucer's works overall. Folio pages 327 x 212 mm collating: 23 376 14 ff. Lacking the first blank A1 and the progenie of Chaucer plate. Textually complete including the final errata leaf. Bound by Seton & Mackenzie of Edinburgh in nineteenth century half vellum over marbled boards with elaborate gilt spine. Dampstain to corner of upper board. Edges stained red. Tear through most of leaf C3 touching text but not affecting legibility. A handsome Near Fine copy remarkably fresh and clean throughout. <br /> <br /> "This edition was considerably revised mainly with the aid of Francis Thynne. It is the earliest in which thorough punctuation was attempted and in many other ways it is a distinct improvement upon Speght's first edition" of 1598 Pforzheimer. A sumptuous collection of literature from one of England's greatest early masters. Geoffrey Chaucer is credited with setting the style of Middle English literature. He is often considered England's first "poet laureate" - after he received a reward from Richard II for one of his poems. Although Chaucer is famous chiefly for his medieval-era masterpiece The Canterbury Tales his works are also thought to have helped popularize English as a literary language. While famous in their own right Chaucer's works have also influenced just about every major luminary of English literature to come after him.<br /> <br /> Grolier 43. ESTC S107210. Pforzheimer 177. Near Fine. Printed by Adam Islip unknown
1687160165London 1687. The last black letter edition Final Speght edition the last to be printed in black letter and the eighth collected edition overall. This is a reprint of Thomas Speght's 1602 edition with the addition on the verso of the last leaf of the first printings of the conclusions to the Cook's and the Squire's Tales then recently discovered. Thomas Speght d. 1621 developed a passion for Chaucer while studying at Cambridge and maintained this interest well after graduating. He worked on several editions of the complete works the first published in 1598; his notes were more elaborate than in any other previous edition and he was the first to provide a glossary. The present 1687 edition "remained in use even after the publication of John Urry's much reviled Chaucer edition of 1721. Thomas Tyrwhitt editing the Canterbury Tales in the 1770s used the 1602 and 1687 editions of Speght taking the latter as his base text. With a period of influence stretching from the late sixteenth century to the late eighteenth then Speght's Chaucer has been the most durable of any Chaucer edition" ODNB. In this edition the list of "Old and Obscure Words in Chaucer explained" is marked with derivations and a gloss has been added translating the Latin and French "not Englished" by Chaucer. Speght's influential biography of Chaucer also included shaped all future descriptions of the poet's life up until the 1840s and notably established the common belief that he was once fined for beating a Franciscan friar in Fleet Street. The imprint here has no mention of printers as the copyright belonged to the Stationers' Company. Folio bound in fours 320 x 201 mm. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Chaucer and his progeny laid down woodcut arms on a2v part title with large woodcut arms; text printed in double columns black Gothic letter. Contemporary calf rebacked with red morocco label and tooling style spine with blind ruled raised bands red morocco label edges red. Early 19th-century armorial bookplate of one John Gordon engraved by W. Deeble artist and engraver active in Cork Ireland; the owner was likely Sir John Gordon d. 1871 surgeon and apothecary appointed Mayor of Cork in 1855. Extremities rubbed some surface crackling and light scuffs to leather spine and corners judiciously refurbished endpapers and inner hinges repaired contents mildly toned with occasional small marks couple of tiny ink burns not affecting text otherwise generally clean. A very good copy. Pforzheimer 179; Wing C3736. hardcover
16028693London Printed by Adam Islip 1602. 1602 Folio. Collates pi6 A6 b-c6 B-Z6 Aa-Zz6 Aaa-Nnn6 Ooo4 Ppp-Ttt6 Uuu8. Second Speght edition the first to contain the glossary. The Portrait after Hoccleve by John Speede is bound to face bi. Its fore edge is extended so possibly from another copy. The title within a woodcut border McKerrow & Ferguson 232. bii verso has a woodcut blazon of Chaucer arms. Civ Full page arms. Bi woodcut of the knight on horseback at the head of the Knights Tale. Historiated and decorated multiline capitals throughout. The text is set in black letter in double columns. The editorial and commentary are set in roman type. Altogether a clean handsome copy of an important edition. Early calf binding the boards are panelled with a triple line roll. Pleasantly rebacked some time ago with an old label and replacement endpapers. "This edition was considerably revised mainly with the help of Francis Thynne. It is the earliest in which thorough punctuation was attempted and in many other ways it is a distinct improvement upon Speight's first edition." Pforzheimer. Pforzheimer 178. STC 5080. London, Printed by Adam Islip, hardcover
81944London Waddington Galleries 1972. . Large folio 64.8 x 92.8 cm. One of 50 copies. 19 original full-page etchings with aquatint in black on J. Barcham Green paper numbered B98 with artist's signature in ink at rear. Publisher's full green cloth with gold-blocked design on the front cover housed in cream coloured slip-case.<br /> A monumental book with striking full-page etchings by Frink depicting the figures animals and birds that characterise her work. The etchings were printed by Cliff White at White Ink Ltd. London and illustrate 'The Prologue' 'The Knight's Tale' 'The Miller's Tale I' 'The Miller's Tale II' 'The Reeve's Tale' 'The Shipman's Tale' 'The Prioress's Tale' the 'Tale of Sir Topaz' 'The Nun's Priest's Tale' 'The Physician's Tale' 'The Pardoner's Tale' 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' 'The Summoner's Tale' 'The Clerk's Tale' 'The Merchant's Tale' 'The Squire's Tale' 'The Franklin's Tale' 'The Second Nun's Tale' and 'The Manciple's Tale.' <br /><br />Elisabeth Frink was born in Suffolk in 1930 and became one of Britain's most eminent sculptors. She attended both the Guildford and Chelsea Schools of Art and had her first major exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London when she was only twenty-two. Throughout her lifetime she was known as one of the most accomplished sculptors of animal and human forms: men dogs horses and birds were her most consistent subjects. Her graphic work and drawings privileged the same themes and were executed with the same simplicity and sense of texture that can be found in her sculptural work.<br /> London, Waddington Galleries, 1972. hardcover
1722Rebacked and restored utilizing original boards and backstrip; "Progenie" plate in facsimile; light rubbing and soiling to boards; occasional light foxing and dampstaining; bookplate of Clifton's Ladies College Professor of English Elocution J. W. Morris and memorial bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library to whom this book was posthumously presented on his behalf circa 1862. Very good. Geffrey Chaucer. The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet Geffrey Chaucer Newly Printed. London: Printed by Adam Islip 1602. Second Thomas Speght edition. <br /> Folio. Rebacked in contemporary leather spine lettered and decorated in gilt five raised bands all edges stained red marbled endleaves. xxviii dedications and Chaucer's Life armorial title xvi Dedication to Henry VIII and Prologues 376pp 14 glossary The Hard Words of Chaucer Explaned Latin; French; authors cited; and errata sheet. Lacks Progenie of Chaucer plate replaced with expertly reproduced facsimile. Textually complete.<br /> <br /> . unknown
70560London 1687. Middle English FINAL BLACKLETTER EDITION Speight's third edition. Quarto 34 x 22cm pp.34 660 24. With the copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Chaucer. Introductory matter in italic font main text blackletter. Recently re-backed with the original panelled and speckled calf boards and the original plain speckled calf laid over spine with raised bands. All edges trimmed and speckled. Delightful 'Alice' themed illustrated bookplate of Edgar F. Leo to front pastedown. Repairs to hinges and some chipping to fly-leaf margins otherwise internally crisp and clean. Heavily worn original leather binding has been restored to an attractive robust condition including repairs to the corners. Very good. A fine blackletter Chaucer editor Speight being the first to print a portrait of the poet. Includes the recently discovered conclusions to the Cook's Tale and the Squire's Tale and at the end of the prefatory matter 'three more poems. which might as well have been consigned to oblivion' Skeat also found in the 1542 and 1550 editions. ESTC: R3920. London, 1687 unknown
17751272181775. CHAUCER TYRWHITT Thomas editor. The Canterbury Tales. London: T. Payne 1775-78. Five volumes. Octavo early 19th-century full navy straight-grain morocco elaborately blind-tooled spines raised bands all edges gilt. $4800.First Tyrwhitt edition of Chaucers classic""the best-edited English Classic that ever has appeared""handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt. From the esteemed collection of Frederic Perkins with his engraved armorial bookplates.In preparing his groundbreaking edition Tyrwhitt consulted roughly 25 manuscripts of Chaucer's Tales. ""Tyrwhitt's edition has enjoyed the highest reputation and the estimation in which it has been held is in great part deserved and ought to be permanent"" Child. ""It was considered 'the best-edited English Classic that ever has appeared' and Professor Skeat in his edition 1894 speaks of it 'as a work of high literary value to which I am greatly indebted for many necessary notes.' As late as 1891 his notes and glossary were condensed and arranged under the text in the edition of Chaucer in Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books"" DNB. With an essay on Chaucer's language and versification as well as an introduction notes and a glossary volume published three years after the four volumes containing the Tales themselves all by Tyrwhitt. From the library of Frederic Perkins 1780-1860 noted as an important English literature collector in De Ricci English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts with his armorial bookplate. ""Perkins started collecting books about 1820 and left his library to his second son George who died in 1879. A portion chiefly musical was sold by auction in London 17 July 1861 and a second sale rich in Shakespeare quartos and folios took place on 10 July 1889"" University of Toronto Libraries.A beautifully bound set of this important edition with distinguished provenance in fine condition. hardcover
19132091202133206223Riccardi Press 1913. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 books in total Riccardi Press paperback
193010380New York: Covici-Friede 1930. Edition De Luxe of seventy five copies on Crane's Olde Book paper this copy numbered 61. very good . Two Volumes. Folio. Bound in pigskin. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent and. Signed by Rockwell Kent. Original and modern versions in parallel columns. Paged continuously. Full-page wood-engraved illustrations printed in black and brown. Accompanied by a special portfolio of Kent plates -- Wear to the spines on both volumes. internally fine. -- Overall Condition. "Chaucer's work begins at the Tabard Inn in Southwark England where a group of pilgrims have assembled on their way to Canterbury. Harry Bailly the innkeeper suggests a contest: whoever tells the best tale will win a supper when they reach Canterbury"-worldcat. Covici-Friede unknown
172138380London: Bernard Lintot. Very Good. 1721. Hardcover. Oversized recent quarter leather with hand tooled spine gilt titled red label marbled boards. Large folio by John Urry. "Compared with the former editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which three tales are added which were never before printed; . Together with a glossary. The author's life and a preface." 626 pages plus numerous additional pages of the life of Chaucer. 81 page glossary errata sheet at rear. Full page engravings of Urry and Chaucer additional remarkable engravings for each tale plus typographical decorations. Some light foxing margins at some pages have ink notes not affecting text. A few page corners professionallly repaired some wrinkling to glossary pages. Tight binding and hinges; trace wear to board edges. Limited edition. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Bernard Lintot hardcover
19131029212<p>CHAUCER Geoffrey. <b><i>The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer</i></b>. Illustrated after Drawings by W. Russell Flint. London: Philip Lee Warner 1913. 4to vol. 1: x 239pp. vol. 2: x 221pp. vol. 3: x 187pp. Beige quarter-cloth with light blue boards and paper labels affixed to the front and spine extra paper labels tipped-in to the rear of each volume. 36 mounted color plates 12 in each volume. Vol. 1: Head of spine lightly rubbed lower spine end a tad so free endpapers discolored where not covered by jacket flap else a fine copy in original dust jacket spine heavily sunned small chip at top of spine panel – no loss to printed area light edge wear at top of rear flap. Vol. 2: Spine ends lightly rubbed free endpapers faintly discolored where not covered by jacket flap else a fine copy in original dust jacket spine heavily sunned a few tiny chips at spine panel ends. Vol. 3: free endpapers lightly discolored where not covered by jacket flaps else a fine copy in original dust jacket spine heavily sunned covers less so but a bit discolored a few tiny chips at spine panel ends. All three volumes housed in original carboard slipcases all sunned and worn with one slipcase split open at one ends the other two having small splits. A beautiful set rarely found in the original jackets and slipcases.</p><p>First W. Russell Flint-illustrated edition in 3 volumes. #500/500 numbered copies of the limited trade edition. Here is a breathtaking edition of one of the most enduring works in English literature: Geoffrey Chaucer's <i>Canterbury Tales</i> featuring the stunning masterful watercolors of the renowned Sir William Russell Flint!</p> Philip Lee Warner hardcover
1913141456London: printed by the Riccardi Press and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner 1913. First Riccardi Press edition number 196 of 500 copies printed on Riccardi paper deluxe issue bound in limp vellum and each volume with its original dust jacket and slipcase. The Riccardi Press Chaucer is a most handsome production attractively illustrated by William Russell Flint and is among the most desirable productions of the press. The printed dust jackets show that of the 500 copies on paper they could be purchased in boards at £7 17s. 6d. or as here in limp vellum at £9 9s. There were an additional 12 copies printed on vellum for sale at £47 5s. 3 vols quarto. With 36 mounted colour plates by William Russell Flint with captioned tissue guards. Original limp vellum spine and front covers lettered in gilt green cloth ties top edges gilt others uncut. With the printed dust jackets each numbered "196" by hand to spine and card slipcases. The vols themselves in fine bright condition the jackets tanned to spine panels and a little rubbed with a portion of loss though no loss to titles from the head of vol. 3 the slipcases lightly worn and tanned in places but all intact. hardcover
1913189195London: Philip Lee Warner The Medici Society 1913. Here biginneth the book of the tales of Canterbury First Flint edition number 55 of 500 copies printed on handmade paper at the Riccardi Press; there were also 12 copies printed on vellum. William Russell Flint 1880-1969 is renowned for his watercolours of women. In this edition the majority of the illustrations concentrate on female subjects: "Flint drew women wherever possible using for example a woman to represent April in the General Prologue female figures to illustrate the 'old gods' referred to at the opening of the Knight's Tale and barmaids aplenty in the picture accompanying the Pardoner's Story of the revellers" Echard pp. 137-8. 3 vols quarto. Colour frontispieces title pages printed in blue and black 33 colour plates all with captioned tissue guards by William Russell Flint. Original brown quarter linen cloth blue sides paper labels to the spines and front covers lettered in black top edges gilt others untrimmed green silk bookmarker in each volume printed bookmarkers and Riccardi Press catalogue loosely inserted in two volumes. With dust jackets. Contemporary gift inscription in vol. I contemporary bookplates in each volume. A few spots of wear to edges a few spots of foxing; jacket spines toned loss to head of spine and rear panel of vol. I affecting text on rear panel flaps unpriced as issued. A very good set. S. Echard Printing the Middle Ages 2013; Keith S. Gardner Sir William Russell Flint. a Catalogue Raisonné. 1994 p. 119. hardcover
1913000047London: Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society 1913. Three volumes complete - Volume One - x 235pp 5; Volume Two - x 217pp 5 and Volume Three - x 183pp 5. Original full vellum in DJ's gilt title to spines and upper covers t.e.g. DJ spines faded with ink number as issued to spines. Hint of foxing to fore-edge of text block otherwise bright and clean. With thirty-six colour full-page tissue-guarded tipped in illustrations by W. Russell Flint twelve in each volume as called for. Limited edition of five hundred copies this being copy one hundred and eighty eight as per the number on the spines of the DJ's. An attractive set. First Thus. Full Vellum. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Flint W. Russell. 4to. Limited Edition. Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society Hardcover
1649<p>Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon and Publshed for the Press by Basil Blackwell Oxford 1928-29. Limited Edition no. 318 of 375 copies 8 volumes folio uncut and unopened marginal illustrations throughout coloured by hand original publisher's 1/4 buckram and paper boards printed paper labels on spines and a duplicate laid in loose in each volume a fine set.</p> Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon and Publshed for the Press by Basil Blackwell Oxford 1928-29 hardcover
1935008712New York: Coward-McCann Inc. 1935. Second edition. Hardcover. This is a lovely presentation copy of the second edition of this Christmas anthology edited by Robert Frosts eldest daughter featuring several noteworthy signatures inscriptions and presentations. This copy offers a compelling and ostensibly unique convocation of associations - including the poet Robert Frost his daughter Lesley Frost infamous Frost collector Earl J. Bernheimer and newspaper columnist and syndicator George Matthew Adams. A two-page facsimile manuscript of Robert Frost's poem "Good Relief" fills two pages preceding the title page. Below his facsimile signature in six lines in black ink Frost signed and wrote "Robert Frost - second signature for Earl J. Bernheimer April 5 1936". The Editor Leslie Frost signed "Lesley Frost" below her printed name on the title page. She further signed and inscribed the front free endpaper recto in five lines three at the upper center two at the lower left: "For George Matthew Adams from Lesley Frost N.Y.C. June 1951". <br /> <br />Already unique by inscriptions and association this copy is also noteworthy for condition approaching fine in a very good plus dust jacket. It is an attractive little book bound in blue cloth with elaborate gilt print and illustration on the spine the contents bound with red and yellow head and tail bands and yellow-stained top edges. The dust jacket is striking printed in green red and black on a silver background the holly leaves and banners design of the binding spine repeated in color on both the jacket spine and front face edges with further illustrations on both faces. This copys blue cloth binding is square clean bright tight and sharp-cornered with only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The contents are clean and bright with no spotting no soiling no appreciable toning and retaining a crisp feel. The dust jacket is bright unclipped and nearly complete with only fractional loss at the spine head flap fold corners and the bottom edge of the front face. Light soiling to the rear face and minor scuffs primarily to the extremities joints and flap folds do not significantly mar the books excellent presentation. The book is housed in a marbled-paper-lined black cloth chemise nested within a black cloth slipcase with three gilt-printed dark red leather spine labels. The slipcase is intact though worn with some loss to the perimeter of the labels. <br /> <br />The circa 1929 facsimile manuscript of Frost's poem "Good Relief" herein is the first published appearance of this poem which was never included by Robert Frost in one of his collections. "The poem was begun in Beaconsfield England in 1912." It was first printed in the first 1929 edition of Come Christmas and printed again here in the 1935 second edition. <br /> <br />The recipient for whom Frost inscribed this copy was one of the twentieth centurys first significant Frost collectors. A wealthy Beverly Hills bibliophile Earl J. Bernheimer began collecting Frosts books and manuscripts in 1936 - the same year Frost inscribed this copy of Come Christmas to him. Capitalizing on Frosts financial anxieties Bernheimer eventually acquired from Frost a magnificent trove of Frostiana with Frost entertaining the hope and understanding that Bernheimer would one day donate everything to a single university library. Instead owing in part to a rancorous and expensive divorce and to Frosts manifest resentment Bernheimer sold off his collection in a famous 1950 New York auction. <br /> <br />The editor Lesley Frost Ballantine or Lesley Frost as she always liked to be known 1899-1983 was the second child of Robert and Elinor Frost. She spent her early childhood on the Derry New Hampshire farm that informed her fathers developing poetic voice and where he drafted many of his early poems. It was during her first marriage and after the birth of her first daughter Elinor named after her mother and to whom this book is dedicated that Leslie edited this collection of Christmas Poetry Song Drama and Prose. This 1935 second edition was issued when Lesley was divorced and teaching. She was an author and worked in various fields but her most well-known work was as custodian of her fathers legacy. She eventually served as the first chair of the Robert Frost Foundation oversaw restoration of the Frost farm in Derry and gained an international reputation for her correspondence with her fathers friends and for her articles and lectures on his work. <br /> <br />George Matthew Adams 1878-1962 to whom Lesleys inscription is addressed was a newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams News Service which syndicated columns and comic strips to more than one hundred newspapers all over the world over the course of half a century. <br /> <br />References: Crane E17; Parini Robert Frost: A Life; Tuten and Zubizarreta; University of New Hampshire; University of Rochester ANB <br/><br/> Coward-McCann, Inc. hardcover
177971140Edinburgh: At the Apollo Press by the Martins 1779. Fine. At the Apollo Press by the Martins Edinburgh 1779 - 1804 8.50 x 13.50 cm 99 tomes en 34 volumes reliés Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill At the Apollo Press by the Martins Edinburgh 1779 - 1804 In-18 8.5 x 13.5 cm 99 parts in 34 bound volumes Very rare collation of volumes from the famous Bell edition of British poets in uniform binding which adds up to 101 volumes here and whose printing was widely spread over time the volumes being sold by author. Volume 8 which brought together parts 5 and 6 of Edmund Spencer's poetic works is unfortunately missing. Some volumes appear for the first time others are second editions. This particularly important edition for British poetry brings together 39 poets from Chaucer to Charles Churchill and 99 figures portraits and frontispieces. It is precious because many poets saw their first complete edition this way notably John Donne. English binding in contemporary blond sheepskin. Spine decorated with various finishing tools including a kneeling King with multiple filets Title piece in green morocco. Overall clean paper but some browned leaves with foxing notably some engravings. At the Apollo Press, by the Martins unknown
190200843737 Bedford Street Strand England; and 100 William Street New York: Edward Arnold & Samuel Buckley & Co 1902. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. HARWOOD Edith. One of 165 copies on the original blind-stamped vellum Soul is Form gilt title to spine. Internally hand coloured frontis 45 pp 1 limitation 3 illustrations full page & 82 initials designed & hand-coloured by Edith Harwood 1 B&W at limitation light spotting to tissue-guards loosely inserted between leaves only small amount of natural mottling to upper vellum cover printed at the Essex House Press of Chipping Campden. 190123 mm Ransom p266; Tomkinson p73; Franklin p199. Number six in the Essex House Press's Great Poems Series described by Colin Franklin as 'The most skillful and original of them all a charming small work of art.' The Private Presses p77. The Flower and the Leaf is not just a text but a luxury handcrafted book presenting a medieval allegory about enduring virtue versus fleeting beauty produced in a style inspired by medieval manuscripts and the Arts and Crafts movement. <br/> <br/> Edward Arnold & Samuel Buckley & Co hardcover
1967122334455753The First UK printing published by Editions Alecto London in 1967. Elephant Folio. With frontis and fourteen mask images each are titled and initialed by the artist in pencil printed silk screen and letter-press in 24 pt Plantin. Number 65' of an edition of only 125 signed copies. The 15 proofs 50 x 37cm were issued as 15 unbound four page sections on Barcham Green rag-made housed within a paper wraparound folder. The whole housed within a blue cloth folder with silver titling and the original publisher s canvas slip-case. There were also separate editions of 50 plus 5 proofs made of all the images except Friar & Franklin . All the screen-prints are present and in excellent condition. The spine of the portfolio is faded. The slipcase is very good condition. The Prologue is held in important public and private collections world-wide. There was also a later second edition published 11years later by The Circle Press. The first edition of 1967 was begun by Editions Alecto but following difficulties Ronald King took over publication himself and it became the first book of his 'Circle Press'. The Second Edition of 5000 copies twenty groups of 250 copies each with a single different loose print in a folder accompanying each group was issued in 1978. Extremely scarce to find complete as this the first edition. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Editions Alecto, London
17789147London: Printed for T. Payne at the Mews-Gate 1778. First Tyrwhitt edition. 5 volumes 8vos 310 318 320 336 and 290pp. Contemporary tree calf red spine labels with gilt lettering. Spines dry toned and with a few cracks and chipping at caps. Joints rubbed upper joint in vol 1 cracked but holding. Few contemporary shelving numbers on front pastedowns contemporary inscription to verso of title in vol 1 "Calf leat. Mr. Hodgson." Overall a very good sound set. <br /> <br /> Beautiful 18th century Chaucer which was hailed at the time as the best-edited English classic that had appeared. Tyrwhitt consulted dozens of manuscript versions of Chaucer to put this together in 4 volumes and added a glossary as the 5th volume 3 years later. This set in an untouched period tree calf binding and scarce thus. . Printed for T. Payne at the Mews-Gate unknown
2002210560London: The Folio Society 2002. Hardcover. Two tiny little pale stains to the goatskin on the spine near the front joint one corner just barely rubbed else this copy is in fine condition in a fine box with the booklet laid in. Photographs upon request. Number 846 of a limited edition of 1010 copies. A facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer of 1900 printed for The Folio Society by Cambridge University Press. Size: 11.5"x17" bound in full Nigerian goatskin with extensive gilt decorations raised bands and top edge gilt housed in a blue cloth clamshell box with a booklet "The Kelmscott Chaucer" by William S. Peterson stored in an interior pocket. The Folio Society hardcover
200220113London: Folio Society 2002. Book. Illus. by Edward Burne-Jones. Near Fine. Leather. Facsimile Edition. Folio. Full cream Nigerian goatskin lettered and decorated in gilt. Housed in blue cloth slipcase with cream gilt lettered leather title label.One of 1010 copies of which this is 259. This is a facsimile edition of the greatest publication of William Morris' Kelmscott Press referred to as the "Kelmscott Chaucer" and one of the wonders of publishing of the late 19th and early 20th century. This volume has been beautifully executed. Included is a booklet with an essay by William Peterson in which he indicated this was based on the Basilisk Press facsimile of 1975 which is considered the best of all facsimiles. A beautiful book. Folio Society Hardcover
8754<p>One of 375 numbered sets number 266. The type of the Shakespeare Head Chaucer is Caslon Old Face and the illustrations of the Canterbury pilgrims are adapted from the Ellesmere manuscript. 'The first impression is of care in planning of thought for the reader. A friendly craftsmanship comes from all the pen and brush work in these books. The illustrations enter as a pleasant surprise rather than necessary parts of the plan. The edition seems complete without them but we are delighted to find them' Franklin The Private Presses pp. 149-50. The set comprises The Canterbury Tales in the first four volumes Consolation of Philosophy Troilus and Criseyde The House of Fame The Legend of Good Women later minor poems doubtful poems A Treatise on the Astrolabe and The Romaunt of the Rose.</p><p>8 volumes large 4to 285 × 190 mm calligraphic headings by Joscelyne Gaskin printed in red and blue paraphs in red and blue manuscript 70 hand-coloured illustrations by Hugh Chesterman and Lynton Lamb. Original linen-backed boards printed spine labels edges uncut and mostly unopened original spare labels tipped in. A very nice set.</p> Shakespeare Head Press, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
