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2008140923London : The Folio Society 2008. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket Issued. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. original gilt decorated cloth hardcover top page edges gilt silk page marker ribbon illustrated a fine clean copy in fine lettered original slipcase. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. <br/> <br/> The Folio Society hardcover
20082079KLondon: Folio Society 2008. Large folio edition 16.75" x 12.25" x 3.25". Hardcover in slipcase. Like new/no dj as issued. the slipcase has some shelf wear. E. Burne-Jones. Folio Society 2008. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer. Edited by F.S. Ellis and illustrated by E. Burne-Jones. <br /> Large folio 16.75" x 12.25" x 3.25" on laid paper text in red and black throughout with numerous fine illustrations and borders in the text; full brown buckram boards and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt gilt top brown endpapers broad black silk marker. Housed in a solid board slip-case lettered in gilt.<br /> Includes the large format prospectus that includes one full--size samole page with great illustrations. <br /> -- Condition Book like new the slipcase has some shelf wear. -. Superb facsimile of the Arts & Crafts classic. Includes an extended essay by William S. Peterson. Folio Society hardcover
168725716London: np 1687. The third Speght edition and the last 'black letter' edition of Chaucer's works. With the famous engraved Gower portrait and genealogical frontispiece engraved coat of arms at the beginning of the works and with woodcut initials throughout. Folio full antique calf the spine sometime restored to correct period style with raised bands ruled in double gilt and with a red morocco label gilt ruled and lettered. 36 660 24 pp. A very handsome copy internally quite clean and still crisp a bit of expected mellowing or age evidence the binding handsome with some expert restoration as noted. A nice tall copy of this important work. A SCARCE HANDSOME AND IMPORTANT EDITION. This was the last 'black letter' edition of Chaucer to be published. Thomas Speght included in this edition "The Court of Love" added to the Chaucer canon by Stow in 1561 as well as four new pieces: "The Flower and the Leaf;" "Chaucer's Dream;" "Jacke Upland" spuriously attributed to Chaucer; and "Chaucer's A B C." The text of the Tales follows that of the 1602 edition but with the addition of the then recently rediscovered endings of the Cook's and the Squire's tales. There is also a twenty-four page Glossary "The Old and Obscure Words Explained" at the end of the volume.<br> This copy with fine provenance with the engraved bookplate of Oliver Huckel published author and authority on Richard Wagner. Huckel was the translator into English of such works as 'Tannhauser' and 'Parsifal'. With the plate of the Brooklyn Public Library now deaccessioned noting it was purchased with the gift of Alexander M. White. There are none of the typical library markings other than this label noting the donor and previous owner. np hardcover
19079951<p>Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1907. Reprint of the 1898 edition. 8vo. 7.3 x 5.1 inches. Some foxing to the blank endpapers and to a lesser extent on the first and last couple of pages of text otherwise clean throughout. Fine attractive early twentieth century binding of full dark green morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London. Spine with five raised bands each with gilt piping. Compartments decorated ruled and lettered in gilt. Triple gilt ruled border on boards. Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales arms stamped in gilt to the front board. Gilt inner dentelles. Dark green endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine faded to a mellow brown but overall a fine attractive binding.</p> Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1907 hardcover
2011141213London : The Folio Society 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket Issued. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. first thus TWO VOLUME SET main volume bound in full black leather heavily decorated in gilt with all page edges gilt illustrated second part has cloth backed boards 310 & 48 pages LIMITED EDITION this being number 378 of 1250 copies a lovely fine clean set in fine gilt lettered folding box. Would make a fine gift. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. <br/> <br/> The Folio Society hardcover
1927008358Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. GILL Eric 1882-1940. A Golden Cockerel Press in the publishers quarter morocco over patterned paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe corners worn edges rubbed a few scratched to lower board. Spine raised bands blind tooling gilt titles some fading. Internally all on hand made paper half title wood-engraved pictorial title decorative borders illustrations and initials by Eric Gill initials printed in red and blue t.e.g. remainder uncut engraved armorial bookplate to fep Peter Garnett Agnew - with some light foxing & offsetting to facing fep. An edition limited to just 225 copies. 305190 mm. Chanticleer 50; Gill 279. The first and scarcest of Gill's three great works for the Golden Cockerel Press with a limitation half the size of The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels. And one of the most significant narrative poems of the Middle Ages presented in the original Middle English. <br/> <br/> The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
201122693Folio Society 2011. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus on Rigolette Panna paper with decorative title and borders and 5 full-page illustrations; main work handsomely bound in black full goatskin elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower gilt edges silk marker; Commentary Volume bound in boards with backram back the two volumes housed in publisher's solander case. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES. Sumptuous Folio Society reissue of the original Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927. The Commentary Volume contains essays by Roderick Cave on the history of the Golden Cockerel Press and Professor Barry Windeatt on the sources structure and interpretation of the poem. Folio Society, hardcover
199022694Folio Society 1990. 8vo. First Edition thus on laid paper with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates; patterned boards green morocco back lettered in gilt green top brown endpapers a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Folio Society, hardcover
30620LONDON THE FOLIO SOCIETY 2008. FACSIMILIE COPY PRINTED ON SPECIALLY MADE PAPER BINDING DESIGN BY DAVID PEARSON BOUND BY SIGLOCH IN GERMANY. BOUND IN FULL RED BUCKRAM 559 PAGES TOP EDGES GILT ELABORATE DESIGN TO FRONT BOARD AND SPINE. A FINE COPY IN A FINE BROWN SLIPCASE. LONDON, THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 2008 hardcover
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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
199726231San Marino CA: Huntington Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Limited 1st edition. Hardcover. 9780873281621 . Folio 13" - 23" tall . Huntington Library hardcover
