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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
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
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.
192848431Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press/Basil Blackwell 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1928-29. 8 volumes. 4to. Original blue paper boards and linen spines with printed spine labels. Edition of 375 copies this is no. 47. Front and rear hinge of volume 1 fragile at the blanks before and after the text the text block a little dropped at the top as a result a few nicks and scratches to the boards light cracking in the paper spine label. Other volumes with light bumping and wear to the corners a few volumes with scuffing to the rear board but overall a nice clean set the text bright throughout and the bindings tight and square. Edited by by Alfred W. Polland. With hand-coloured initials and woodcuts the illustrations freely drawn by Hugh Chesterman from those in the Ellesmere MS. of The Canterbury Tales. Includes a loose prospectus and spare spine labels. The Shakespeare Head Press/Basil Blackwell hardcover
177971140At the Apollo Press, by the Martins | Edinburgh 1779 - 1804 | 8.50 x 13.50 cm | 99 tomes en 34 volumes reliés
1928179197Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press 1928. Edited by A. E. Pollard and others. In eight volumes totalling over 1800 pages printed in red blue & black with numerous illustrations mostly hand-coloured; impl. 8vo; linen backed blue boards with printed paper title labels on spines and spare label each volume the labels browned spines slightly discoloured and with a few small damp stains boards a trifle soiled; uncut and largely unopened; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedowns hinges occasionally tender edges of leaves slightly foxed; Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-upon-Avon 1928-9. Edition limited to 375 copies 350 for sale plus a further 11 copies on vellum. Ransom Selective Check Lists 60. With the publisher's slip attributing the illustrations to the Canterbury Tales 'freely drawn by Hugh Chesterman from those in the Ellesmere Ms' loosely inserted in Volume I. Edited by A. W. Pollard and others. Other illustrations are by Lynton H. Lamb and the lettering for the title pages and headings was designed by Joscelyne V. Gaskin. Shakespeare Head Press unknown
17212861London: Bernard Lintot 1721. First edition. Contemporary speckled calf. Very Good. LANDMARK EARLY MODERN EDITION OF CHAUCER'S WORKS. The Canterbury Tales the most culturally productive of Chaucer's works has existed in a state of flux since its earliest manuscript traces. No manuscript surviving from the Middle Ages contains all of the known tales and in exemplars which do witness the same episodes the sequence often varies-in addition to containing more commonplace textual variations in language and presentation. Thus the task of compiling Chaucer's works for print publication with an increased need for standardisation and an expectation of mass circulation gives rise to manifold editorial considerations and yields no unprecarious route towards the modern ambition for a definitive volume. These complexities result in a rich and storied editorial history of Chaucer's works from the fourteenth century to the present day.<br /> <br /> John Urry was one of those who undertook the herculean task of editing Chaucer. By the eighteenth century once a medieval text had been set in print the need to return to manuscript sources was often felt with less imperative. Such was the case with Chaucer and in post-Reformation Britain an "obvious interest in Chaucer coupled with wide misinformation about his life" contributed to need for substantive critical intervention Shugrue p. 229. Indeed Urry's 1721 edition presented here is primarily noteworthy for being the first new edition of Chaucer's works in over a century to examine Chaucer from the early source texts. "His is the first edition of Chaucer for nearly a hundred and fifty years to consult any manuscripts and is the first since that of William Thynne in 1534 to seek systematically to assemble a substantial number of manuscripts to establish his text"writes British historian E.I. Carlyle noting Urry's is "also the first edition to offer descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works" DNB. Published in 1721-having been completed posthumously by fellow members of Christ Church Oxford Thomas Ainsworth and Timothy and William Thomas following Urry's death in 1715-it is also the first edition of Chaucer to printed in Latin type.<br /> <br /> While the return to manuscript sources demonstrates an admirable dedication to the task of the editor Urry's endeavour resulted in a unique compilation of Chaucer's works in particular while also including canonical works such as the The Parliament of Fowls and The Romance of the Rose. One of Urry's sources was the late fifteenth-century Northumberland MS 455 the only extant manuscript that contains "The Tale of Beryn". Across the fifteenth century Chaucerians around Great Britain furnished texts which emulated the works which today are firmly ascribed to Chaucer namely The Canterbury Tales whose episodic structure lends itself to modes of extra-authorial continuation and expansion. So though "The Tale of Beryn" as well as another romance included by Urry "The Tale of Gamelyn" are today placed outside of the accepted canon they are important literary works that inform our understanding of Chaucer's immediate reception context and which continue to receive scholarly attention and editorial treatment. Urry's inclusion of "The Merchant's Second Tale or the History of Beryn" and "The Coke's Tale of Gamelyn" thus constitutes the tales' editiones principes and is a benchmark in the history of how Chaucer has been received by modern audiences.<br /> <br /> Standing at over fifteen inches with richly detailed illustrations of each pilgrim of The Canterbury Tales on horseback and portraits of Chaucer and Urry the present copy would have been a deluxe publication upon its initial release in the first half of the eighteenth century-and still is regarded as one the most exquisite editions of Chaucer.<br /> <br /> CHAUCER GEOFFREY; URRY JOHN ED. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Bernard Lintot 1721. First edition. Tall folio 245 x 396 mm lii 626 81 1 pages; engraved plates and decorations include full-page portraits Urry and Chaucer. 20th-century full speckled calf in period style raised bands red leather spine label. Occasional spots of foxing or toning but generally very clean. A very handsome and exceptionally tall copy.<br /> <br /> References:<br /> <br /> DNB "Urry John 1666-1715" by E. I. Carlyle Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004 <br /> <br /> Shugrue Michael "The Urry Chaucer 1721 and the London Uprising of 1384: A Phase in Chaucerian Biography" Journal of English and German Philology 65.2 1966 229-37. Bernard Lintot unknown
06651London: The Folio Society 2002. The Great Kelmscott Chaucer - The Folio Society Facsimile<br /> In a Superb Reproduction of Cobden-Sanderson's Original Binding<br /> <br /> KELMSCOTT PRESS. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted.Hammersmith: Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press 1896 i.e. London: The Folio Society 2002.<br /> <br /> Superb Folio Society facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer printed for The Folio Society London by Cambridge University Press and completed on 20 February 2002. Limited to 1010 copies of which 1000 were for sale; this copy No. 125.<br /> <br /> Large folio 16 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches; 415 x 288 mm. 4 blank ii 2 554 1 limitation 1 blank pp. With eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Edward Burne-Jones redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith and cut by W. H. Hooper; woodcut title-page; fourteen variously repeated borders; eighteen repeated frames; twenty-six large woodcut initial words; and numerous smaller initials together with Morris's printer's device. Designed by William Morris and cut by C. E. Keates W. H. Hooper and W. Spielmeyer. Printed in black and red in Chaucer type with titles of longer poems in Troy type; text in double columns. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Guard sheet between title and first text leaf.<br /> <br /> The paper Oxford twin-wire laid was specially made at the James Cropper Mill Burneside Cumbria and supplied by John Purcell Paper. Binding design by David Eccles after a Kelmscott Chaucer bound by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson for the Doves Bindery 1900. The present copy bound by Smith Settle Otley Yorkshire in full Nigerian goatskin with handmade Fabriano endpapers.<br /> <br /> Full cream Nigerian goatskin covers elaborately gilt to the Cobden-Sanderson design spine with eight raised bands richly tooled and lettered in compartments Fabriano blue silk endleaves top edge gilt. <br /> <br /> Together with: The Kelmscott Chaucer. An Essay by William S. Peterson issued to accompany the facsimile. octavo 16 pp. original wrappers. <br /> <br /> Both housed in the original blue cloth clamshell case with cream morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Case with minor wear and light soiling to lower spine; the book itself in fine condition.<br /> <br /> The Kelmscott Chaucer remains "not only the most important of the Kelmscott Press's productions; it is also one of the great books of the world.its splendor can hardly be matched" Ray.<br /> <br /> The original Kelmscott edition of 1896 was issued in just 425 paper copies and 13 on vellum and stands as the supreme achievement of the private press movement - an ideal synthesis of typography illustration and bookbinding. <br /> <br /> The present Folio Society facsimile executed with exceptional fidelity in materials and craftsmanship is widely regarded as the finest modern recreation of Morris's masterpiece preserving both its monumental scale and its tactile richness.<br /> <br /> A magnificent production - arguably the closest one can come to owning the Kelmscott Chaucer itself without entering six-figure territory.<br /> <br /> References for the original 1896 edition: Peterson A40; Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England p. 258; Ransom p. 329; Sparling 40; Tomkinson 40; Walsdorf 40; Clark Library pp. 46-48; The Artist & the Book 45. London: The Folio Society, 2002 unknown
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
190222182London: Essex House Press Edward Arnold 1902. leather_bound. Full limp vellum. Very good. 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
1737931P31London: J. Walthoe; W. Bickerton; O. Payne 1737. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A scarce edition of Chaucer's magnum opus Thomas Morell's edition which includes only the prologue and 'Knight's Tale'. Frontispiece is present.A scarce and very sought after edition of 'The Canterbury Tales' edited by Thomas Morell adapted into modern English.Morell was unable to finish this edition of Chaucer this volume contains only the prologue and the 'Knight's Tale'. This work was Chaucer's magnum opus an impressive collection of twenty-four stories told in verse running over seventeen-thousand lines.Including a life of Geoffrey Chaucer and a preface in which Morell discusses the language and meter of Chaucer.Thomas Morell was a printer classical scholar and librettist. He dedicated this volume to Frederick Prince of Wales.Collated complete.Two bookplates to the front paste down for M. Cockin and J. O. Edwards. In a rebacked calf binding with renewed endpapers. Externally generally smart. Light rubbing and marks to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. A couple of light marks to the spine. Extremities are discoloured. Two bookplates to the front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Good J. Walthoe; W. Bickerton; O. Payne hardcover
19020010784London & New York: Edward Arnold / Sameuel Buckley 1902. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo 45 pages the upper cover blindstamped with a rose motif and the words "Soul is Form" spine lettered in gilt stiff vellum Ex libris Arthur E. Chapman. Covers soiled tissue guards laid in to protect the illustrations. <br/><br/>C.R. Ashbee and his Essex House Press inherited the principles and many of the personnel of The Kelmscott Press. Each paragraph begins with an ornamental letter drawn and coloured in by Edith Harwood. Tomkinson p.73 29th book of the press; Ransom p. 266. Copy numberd 125 of only 165 copies printed on vellum. The vellum paper and inks are the same as used by Morris and some of the same craftsmen worked for Essex House Press. The 6th book in the Great Poet Series. The Floure and the Leafe is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem which was mistakenly attributed to Chaucer but its author - possibly a woman - remains unknown. Frontispiece and 2 woodcut plates 85 historiated initials Edward Arnold / Sameuel Buckley hardcover
FORT909743The Folio Society. Used - Very Good. Limited Edition copy no. 221/1010. Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer. Elephant Folio. Fully bound in beige nigerian goatskin with intricate gilt decoration after a design by the Doves Bindery. Ornamental woodcut title 14 large borders 18 different frames round the illustrations 26 initials designed by William Morris and 87 woodcut illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and engraved by W.H. Hooper shoulder and side titles printed in red and the whole printed in two columns in Chaucer type designed by William Morris. Top edge gilt. In original blue cloth clamshell box goatskin backstrip label lettered in gilt. The Folio Society hardcover
1929297299Stratford-upon-Avon Shakepeare Head Press: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1929. Limited Edition. Eight quarto bindings; in pale blue board backed in linen with printed paper labels; printed in red and in black or in blue and black and with hand-colored illustrations throughout; a couple of the labels are lightly chipped though each volumes has a new label tipped into the rear of the book; the top of the spine of the first volume of The Canterbury Tales is a big bumped; Three Hundred and Seventy Five Copies of this Edition have been Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon of which Three Hundred and Fifty are for sale; Eleven Copies More have been printed on Vellum. This copy is Numbered 240; with a slip from the printer laid in to Volume One: “The Figures of the Canterbury Pilgrims in this and the following volumes have been freely drawn by Hugh Chesterman from those in the Ellesmere Ms. of the Canterbury Tales.~~The contents of this lovely set are as follows: Volumes 1-3. The Tales of Canterbury; Volume. 4. The Parsons Tale Earlier Minor Poems; Volume 5.Boece: Boecii de Consolacione Philosophie; Volum e 6. Troilus and Criseyde; Volume 7. The Hous of Fame The Leegende of Good Women Later Minor Poems Doubtful Minor Poems A Treatise on the Astrolabe; Volume 8. The Romaunt of the Rose.~~The attractive small bookplate of collector Albert Parsons Sachs is on the pastedown of each volume. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell unknown
193410719Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Company. As New. 1934. De Luxe Edition. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer-- . Garden City Publishing Company hardcover
20009603Langhorne Pennsylvania U.S.A.: Chelsea House Pub. New. 2000. Hardcover. 0877549060 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- 177 pages; clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- with a bonus offer-- . Chelsea House Pub hardcover
