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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
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. 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
200013663Wilmington Massachusetts U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin College Div. New. 2000. Paperback. 0395978238 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless -- with a bonus offer-- . Houghton Mifflin College Div paperback
198713340Norman Oklahoma U.S.A.: Univ of Oklahoma Pr. New. 1987. Hardcover. 080612038X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless -- with a bonus offer-- . Univ of Oklahoma Pr hardcover
198733343Wilmington Massachusetts U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin College Div. New. 1987. Hardcover. 0395290317 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY ; AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. .Interior text is clean tight and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. -- with a bonus offer--; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall . Houghton Mifflin College Div hardcover
190273377London: Edwin Arnold 1902. Limited to 165 numbered copies on vellum at the Essex House Press under C. R. Ashbee. Small octavo. 45 1 pp. Hand-colored frontispiece and two full-page hand-colored illustrations and eighty-five hand-colored ornamental letters by Edith Harwood. Tail-piece. Caslon type. Publisher's vellum with rose and gilt lettering to front cover. Bit of natural mottling to vellum. Custom folding cloth chemise and slipcase. A very good copy.Great Poems Series No. 6. "In 1886 C.R. Ashbee established the Guild of Handicraft at Essex House London. Around the same time Ashbee created the Essex House Press. The Essex House Press published its first book in 1898. The work of the press was very much a part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Ashbee continually linked the aims of the press with those of John Ruskin and William Morris and described the object of the movement as “making useful things…making them well and…making them beautiful.†The critics however were not so sure about the work of Essex House Press calling it “articraftiness.†Later booklovers came to admire much of its work. Some of the presses and some of the workmen for Essex House Press came from the Kelmscott Press after its demise in 1897 following the death of William Morris. Ashbee designed his own typeface called “Endeavor†for the press. In 1902 the press moved to Glouscestershire. The Essex House Press closed in 1910 having produced more than seventy titles." Univ. of Utah Edwin Arnold hardcover
1928308678Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press 1928. hardcover. very good. 8 volumes in the original bindings -- linen backed aqua boards spines are sun-darkened and somewhat stained and covers are partially dis-colored by the sun. Numerous hand colored illustrations original untrimmed edges and paper spine labels new clean spine labels are tipped into each volume. Pages are crisp and clean. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon 1928-29. Limited Edition. A very good set internally fine.<br/> <br/> Number 264 of 375 copies of which 350 were for sale with a further 11 copies printed on vellum.<br/> <br/> Shakespeare Head Press unknown
2002028985London: The Folio Society 2002. Limited Edition . Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. A Fine copy in full decorated Nubian gooatskin leather of this fasimile edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer in a Very Good slipcase showing rubbing to the blue cloth. Number 841 of 1000 copies printed. The booklet essay "The Kelmscott Chaucer" by William S. Peterson and the publication announcement and order confirmation material are laid in. <br/> <br/> The Folio Society hardcover
1983629154Westerham Press & Pennington Fine Art Lithographers of London 1983. Paperback. Very Good. ATLAS FOLIO. - Unsewn bi-folio sheets housed in four portfolio cases - Limited edition of 1000 copies produced for John Duess of which this is number 95 all four volumes being numbered - Translated by Neville Coghill and lavishly illustrated with lithographs by Charles Mozley - 8 Tales in 4 Volumes each volume being signed by Charles Mozley - Within the four volumes there are over 300 illustrations of which 185 are full page complimented with 100 within the text and eight full size bi-fold scenes - The four volumes are contained in portfolio cases The Prologue and The Wife of Bath's Tale in green The Miller’s Tale and The Reeve’s Tale in red The Merchant’s Tale and The Shipman’s Tale in blue and The Summoner’s Tale and The Clerk’s Tale in olive/brown - Cases quarter bound in cloth held closed by a matching cloth ribbon and with gilt titles to front - Each tale is made up of unsewn bi-folio atlas folio sheets printed on the recto and facing verso w/ the loose sheets held in illustrated card covers - All four cases are rubbed w/ some marks and minor fraying and very slight bowing to front boards plus the green case has some discolouration to front and rear the blue case has a small scuff and stain to front plus minor spotting to bottom edge and the olive/brown case has some discolouration to spine - A truly stunning and very unusual set - Of the 1000 sets initially produced it is thought that no more than 200 survive and even less where all four numbered volumes match as is the case with this set - Volumes are 590mm high and 420mm wide and the set weighs over 25kg - Westerham Press & Pennington Fine Art Lithographers of London paperback
1894155811Oxford: Clarendon Press 1894-97. An important precursor to the Riverside Chaucer First Skeat edition an attractively bound set of what remained the standard edition of Chaucer until it was superseded by that of F. N. Robinson in 1933. Skeat's "interpretative and historical notes were regularly consulted by editors working on the Riverside edition of Chaucer" ODNB. "All Skeat's vast output is distinguished by accuracy in matter of fact wide learning and humanity and most of it he produced without prospect of reward out of devotion to his subject. His own prescription for such monuments of scholarship was enthusiasm with unremitting application and he wasted no time" ibid. 7 vols octavo 220 x 140 mm. Frontispiece in vols I-IV as issued vol. III with 6 plates of diagrams. Contemporary red half morocco by Bickers & Son spines lettered and ruled in gilt sides and corners trimmed with gilt fillet marbled sides and endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed red silk bookmarkers. Light soiling to marbled sides a number of upper joints split at foot bindings remaining sound occasional foxing clean overall. A very good set. unknown
192852605Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. and published by Basil Blackwell Oxford 1928. Limited edition no. 77 of 375 sets eight volumes 4to. Some coloured illustrations in the margins red initial letters and decoration. Small mark to the fore edge of volume I barely affecting the page edges. Original linen backed boards paper labels spines lightly browned otherwise an attractive set. Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press... and published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford unknown
17981338815Oxford: at the Clarendon Press 1798. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quartos Two Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in contemporary full polished calf spines rebacked with gilt tooling paneled with morocco label and gilt titling. Boards show some rubbing and scraping and uneven fading to rear cover of Volume One. Text block has wide margins ownership pen marks to front pastedowns first and second free end pages of Volume One and slight offsetting onto title page from frontispiece in Volume One. Page edges marbled. Shelved case 3.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. "Chaucer's reputation had suffered because the principles on which his verse depends were no longer understood; it was Tyrwhitt who pointed out that final e's by his time mute ought to be pronounced as separate syllables and that the accent of a word was often placed in the French manner e.g. virtúe not vírtue. Tyrwhitt's scholarship is still held in great respect." Britannica. ESTC: T75508. 1338815. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. at the Clarendon Press hardcover
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