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2017x-1138180246Taylor & Francis 2017. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 8.50x5.43x1.30 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
198466784US: Franklin Library 1984. Full Leather. About fine. Full leather. Original full leather gilt titles and tooling to covers and spine all edges gilt raised bands silk ribbon bookmark bound in.<br /> From the Great Books series by Franklin Library.<br /> . Franklin Library unknown
1893243357London: George Bell and Son 1893. Portrait frontispiece. 6 vols. 12mo. Bound in three quarters blue morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. Fine one head slightly nicked. Portrait frontispiece. 6 vols. 12mo. George Bell and Son unknown
19462033New York: Heritage 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine. George Macy Companies 550 pages Near Fine decorated hardcover beautiful color illustrations throughout Heritage hardcover
1924004891Vienna: Artur Wolf. 177pp. #384 of 1500 copies of this edition. Green cloth gold stamp glack stamp frame on front cover. Spine sunned. 30 mounted color panels and 3 woodcutt illustrations. Binding is firm. Previous owner stamp inside front board. Text is clean. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. BC . Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1924. Artur Wolf hardcover
195845127New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1958. First Edition. very good good. 8" x 10.5" approx. 30 profusely illus. in color DJ somewhat soiled small chips to DJ edges. An adaptation of Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale" for children. This version is based on the translation by Robert Mayer Lumiansky Simon & Schuster Inc. 1948. The illustrations are richly colored strong and detailed inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts and the artist's observations of live chickens. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown
369380Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company The Ib=verside Press nd. 3 vols. 8vo. Thrre quarters tan polished calf giltb spine marbled boards. VG. 3 vols. 8vo. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Ib=verside Press unknown
1911015178New York: Henry Holt and Company 1911. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Spine slightly darkened. Cover and spine gilt remain bright. Dust jacket is torn and chipped. Top and bottom 1/3 of jacket spine missing. Top of rear jacket panel torn with 1" x 5" piece missing. Twenty full-page color illustrations with captioned tissue-guards ten by Keith Henderson and ten by Norman Wilkenson. Fine double-column typography. The copy is quite crisp and clean throughout. 108pp. First Edition. Light Tan Cloth. Light Cover Wear/Torn Chipped Jacket. Imperial Octavo. Henry Holt and Company Hardcover
198389226Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1983. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Fine. Edward Coley Burne-Jones illustrator; William Morris borders. Two volume set. 23 x 14.5 cm. 1113pp. Bound into full green leather with gilt design lettering and foredges. Moire endpapers silk ribbons 3 raised bands to spines. Chaucer's original text faces J. U. Nicolson's modern English version on opposing pages. Published as part of Franklin Library's the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. Includes the Notes from the editors pamphlet. The Franklin Library unknown
1904292065Boston Massachusetts: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin 1904. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Designed by Bruce Rogers. In the original glazed parchment over boards #246 of 325 numbered copies. There is a very small spot of darkening to the front joint. Chaucer composed Parlement of Foules for the nuptials of Richard II and Anne of Bohemia basing his fable on “the ancient popular belief that on Saint Valentine’s day all the fowls of the air convene for mating.~~With two large initials. “French Gothic type. Printed in red blue and black. Initials gilded.†Lacking the publisher’s slipcase. Warde 44. Very Good binding. Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin unknown
1934mon0003831788The Limited Editions Club 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. . folio. 2-volume set. covers show minimal wear pages lightly tanned and clean. slipcase shows moderate wear tear rubbing. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
G0030090601I3N00Holt R & W 1954. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Holt, R & W paperback
GB001BIL51SI5N10Oxford University Press. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Oxford University Press hardcover
alb7f19f8ce6fb57e3fLibrary of World Literature. Series 1. Volume 30. Please contact us for details on condition of available copies of the book.�SKUalb7f19f8ce6fb57e3f. unknown
WEAU0263Straßburg Trübner 1883-1886. VIII338 S. 2 Bl.; XII 409; 483 S. dunkelblaue OHLnBde. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rückentit. Ecken min. berieben im Ganzen sehr gut erhalten. Keine Stempel Anstreichungen Stockflecken etc. Band 1 enthält: Das Haus der Fama / Die Legende von guten Weibern / Das Parlament der Vögel. Die Bände 2 u. 3. enth. die Canterbury-Erzählungen. Straßburg, Trübner 1883-1886. unknown
2007c000381Collector's Library 2007. Hardcover. As New/As New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. <br/> <br/> Collector's Library hardcover
GP07738ogJohn Cumberland London: John Cumberland no date circa 1850's 24mo 2 volumes. Book set bound in a black half calf with marbled boards spine is divided into compartments with gilt borders with maroon label lettered in gilt and gilt decoration in the remaining compartments. Minor rubbing scattered foxing overall a tight clean set in very good condition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. John Cumberland Hardcover
1908mon0000028336<p>Chatto and Windus 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Limited numbered edition this being number 334 of 500 copies of which only 475 were for sale. Lightly read. All illustrations retain original protective tissues. Age toning to end pages. Scuffed covers. No DJ</p> Chatto and Windus hardcover
198648163Folio Society 1986. 3 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with titles in red and black and illustrations in the text; cloth boards green/red/blue respectively brown faux-leather backs lettered and tooled in gilt printed endpapers a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case. Folio Society, hardcover
2a7073_3Olms-Weidmann Hildesheim 2012. 440 S. Leinen. Quart. - neuwertig/original verlagsfrisch verschweißt/Reihe: Alpha-Omega Reihe C 15.2.- unknown
2a7077_3Olms-Weidmann Hildesheim 2012. 440 S. Leinen. Quart. - neuwertig/original verlagsfrisch verschweißt/Reihe: Alpha-Omega Reihe C 15.1 - unknown
1870918T21London: Charles Griffin and Company c1870. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6". None. A smart copy of this scarce collection of the Canterbury Tales with illustrative notes from Thomas Wright. Scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece and vignette to the title page. The collected twenty-four short stories of the Canterbury Tales. Written in Middle English between 1387 and 1400 the tales are mostly told in verse presented as a story-telling contest between a group of pilgrims as they travel from London to Canterbury. Written by Geoffrey Chaucer an English poet author and civil servant considered the "father of English literature" for this work. With illustrative notes by Thomas Wright an English antiquarian and writer remembered as an editor of medieval texts. In the original orange cloth wraps. Externally sound with rubbing to the extremities and the odd small crease to the board tips. Light discolouration to the cloth with the odd mark. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good Charles Griffin and Company hardcover
1912801R30London Edinburgh Dublin and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1912. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Only. 9.5" by 7.5". Anne Anderson. A delightful children's retelling of the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer complete with a particularly scarce dust wrapper. Written by Emily Underdown an English novelist and writer known for popularising the works of Dante Alighieri as well as for her children's works. Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.Complete with a scarce dust wrapper.A stamp to the front endpaper denotes this a file copy. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour as well as in-text drawings by Anne Anderson. Collated complete.A smart illustrated children's edition of Chaucer with a very scarce dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart; boards are bright extremities and the head and tail of the spine is bumped. A number in Tippex to the head of the spine. Dust wrapper has loss to the tail extremities and the front board and is generally a little chipped. Stamp to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the foredges having the odd mark. Very Good Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover
1934015842London: Limited Editions Club 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine lacking the slipcase. George W. Jones. Two volumes tall quarto 8" x 12-1/2" bound in half cream canvas and decorated gray boards. Illustrated with floriated initials in green and yellow with each page ruled in pale gold on pale gray paper. Copy #397 of 1500 designed printed and bound by George W. Jones at The Sign of the Dolphin. SIGNED by the printer on the colophon page. Handsome edition of this classic collection of bawdy tales. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
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