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195853442Cleveland: World Publishing 1958. First printing thus. Large quarto 33cm. Embossed cloth-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxi554pp. Tight Near Fine copy in a somewhat soiled but otherwise well-preserved dustwrapper Very Good. <br/><br/>A quite nice copy of this rather dead-feeling photographic facsimile of Morris's magnum opus about as close to the real thing as reading about music is to music. World Publishing unknown books
1984276557Manchester Center Vermont: Press of Elfriede Abbe 1984. Printed by Elfriede Martha Abbe --sculptor wood engraver and illustrator -- at her press in Manchester Center. One of 180 copies signed by Elfriede Abbe of which this is #76. In black cloth with a gold decorative stamp backed in gold silk with a foil label to the spine. Illustrated throughout with woodcut illustrations and additional decorative elements in gold black and grey. With prospectus laid in as well as Elfriede Abbe's curriculum vitae. A sumptuous production. Press of Elfriede Abbe unknown books
19293589Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1929. First edition. One of 375 sets this being number 224 on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight folio volumes 267 x 184 mm. Handsomely bound ca. 1940 in full blue crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Rivière. Covers ruled in gilt spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edges gilt ruled turn- ins marbled liners and endpapers all edges gilt. Spines uniformly faded. Calligraphic half-titles title-pages and contents pages in red and black by Joscelyne V. Gaskin. Paragraph marks in red and blue first initial in gold other initials and sections headings printed in blue after designs by Gaskin some shoulder notes printed in blue occasional text printed in red and blue. Seventy hand-colored woodcut illustrations and twenty hand-colored woodcut diagrams. "A very handsome and attractive set of this fine edition.<br/><br/>A beautiful example of Chaucer's works. The figures of the Canterbury Pilgrims were freely drawn from the Ellesmere manuscript now in the Huntington Library by Hugh Chesterman. The miniatures in The Romaunt of the Rose were redrawn by Lynton H. Lamb from a fourteenth-century French manuscript MS. Egerton 881 at the British Museum. Other manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and Cambridge University were used for the illustrations to The Compleynte of Mars and A Treatise on the Astrolabe as well as for two portraits of Chaucer. Woodcuts from Richard Pynson's 1526 three-volume edition of Chaucer were redrawn by Lynton H. Lamb to illustrate A Parlement of Foules Troilus and Criseyde The House of Fame and The Legende of Good Women and woodcuts from Vincent's early sixteenth-century Lyon edition of Boethius were adapted for De consolacione philosophie.<br/><br/>Franklin 150 235. Ransom 16 no. 60. Basil Blackwell unknown books
193459832NY:: Covici-Friede. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. Rendered into Modern English by J. U. Nicolson. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. First edition thus. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else very good in a very good minor shelf wear with a few small chips dust jacket. ; 627 pages . Covici-Friede, hardcover books
1960UMACPAR00EFRandom House 1960. Very Good. Macdonald Dwight editor. Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm - and After. Chaucer Geoffrey; Beerbohm Max. New York: Random House 1960. 574pp. Indexed. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. Light stains on text edges. Former owner's name on front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with faintly faded spine. Edges are lightly rubbed bumped creased and chipped. Price clipped. Random House hardcover books
195874613NY:: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. 0690185618 . Adapted from The Canterbury Tales. The 1959 Caldecott Medal Winner. A later printing. INSCRIBED by Barbara Cooney. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Thomas Y. Crowell Company, hardcover books
1902285174New York: Grafton Press 1902. Limited Edition. No. 29 of "one hundred and one rubricated~copies on Whatman paper". Printed by Theodore L. DeVinne & Co. With "The Noones Preestes Tale" glossary laid in. With engraved frontispiece portrait and woodcuts throughout. 64 pp. in paper vellum binding. Grafton Press unknown books
1939285250San Francisco California: Black Vine Press 1939. Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. The first book of the Black Vine Press. It has been said that the publisher destroyed most copies see David McGee Fine Printing and Bookbinding from San Francisco p. 27. Printed in black and red by Lawton R. Kennedy Harold N. Seeger and Albert A. Spierson. In calf-backed paper-covered boards stamped in bline. Lacking the slipcase. [Black Vine Press] unknown books
1958WN31510Cleveland: The World Publishing Company 1958. A facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with the original 87 illlustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich with a glossary for the modern reader. Pigskin like leatherette binding with gilt spine lettering with blindstamping. Slight splitting of upper hinge. Unpriceclipped dust jacket has some soiling and rubbing. A stunning work. Extra postage will be due if mailed due to size and weight. Kelmscott Chaucer. Leatherette. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Facsimile. The World Publishing Company Hardcover books
1978WRCLIT67484Guildford: The Circle Press 1978. Folio. Cloth. Fine in very good modestly smudged slipcase. Second Circle edition though first in this format. One of 250 numbered copies in series III of XX series initialed by the artist with a separate poem by Kevin Power in an inserted folder accompanied by a loose print initialed by King. The Circle Press hardcover books
1928106052London: Johnathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd. 1928. Finely bound edition of The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer illustrated by William Russell Flint. Octavo bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt titles and central gilt motif of an armored knight on horseback gilt ruling to the panels top edge gilt gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers. Elaborately illustrated with full color plates after the drawings of William Russell Flint including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. A lovely example. A collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400 The Canterbury Tales is is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's magnum opus. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people composing the characters throughout the tales was without precedent in English and the work still offers a variety of insights into customs and practices of the time. Johnathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd. unknown books
19142260635Frederick A. Stokes Company 1914. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Kirk M.L. First edition. Edges and front board lightly rubbed front hinge starting a few pages dog-eared. 1914 Hard Cover. 310 pp. Endpapers illustrated. Includes color illustrations by M.L. Kirk. "The tales mostly written in verse although some are in prose are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
1947Embry 182559Heritage Press 1947. Spine slightly sunned else fine in fine lightly sunned publisher's slipcase. Color illus. by Arthur Szyk. Illustrated cloth. Includes the Sandglass. Heritage Press, 1947. hardcover books
1995274742University of Oklahoma Press 1995. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. A previous owner name is on the top of the front pastedown; otherwise a clean and fresh copy with no marks of any kind. Near Fine binding. University of Oklahoma Press unknown books
1998UCHATHR01CTEveryman 1998. Very Good. Chaucer Georffrey. Three Tales About Marriage. NP: Everyman 1998. 105pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Everyman paperback books
19301306908New York: Covici Fride 1930. Limited Edition #125/999. Hardcover. Folios 2 volumes; G; bound in publisher's beige cloth gilt lettering to front covers and spines; sun-fading to spines speckling to front cover of volume 1 rubbing and bumping to boards; with both Modern and Middle English in parallel columns; Signed by Rockwell Kent and numbered 125 on colophon; heavy please contact for shipping costs; shelved above case 2. 1306908. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Covici Fride hardcover books
19301311260New York NY: Covici-Friede 1930. Hardcover. Large Hardcover Quarto; VG-; Beige boards with gilt text; Boards show foxing and rubbing on front back and spine corners slightly bumped spine slightly cocked; Text block age toned foxing and shadowing on end papers and paste downs text and illustration legible and clear; pp 250.<br /> <br /> <p>Additional shipping is needed for expedited / international orders. Books too heavy/ large to ship via economy international shipping methods. For international/expedited orders please inquire for rates. 1311260. FP New Rockville Stock. Covici-Friede hardcover books
19812312594Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Caxton William. Near fine. 1981 Hard Cover. 618 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt decor and gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. "The Canterbury Tales Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury2 is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.3 In 1386 Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of the Peace and in 1389 Clerk of the King's Works.4 It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text The Canterbury Tales. The tales mostly written in verse although some are in prose are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. After a long list of works written earlier in his career including Troilus and Criseyde House of Fame and Parliament of Fowls The Canterbury Tales is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time and particularly of the Church. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people was without precedent in English. Although the characters are fictional they still offer a variety of insights into customs and practices of the time. Often such insight leads to a variety of discussions and disagreements among people in the 14th century. For example although various social classes are represented in these stories and all of the pilgrims are on a spiritual quest it is apparent that they are more concerned with worldly things than spiritual. Structurally the collection resembles Boccaccio's Decameron which Chaucer may have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. It has been suggested that the greatest contribution of The Canterbury Tales to English literature was the popularisation of the English vernacular in mainstream literature as opposed to French Italian or Latin. English had however been used as a literary language centuries before Chaucer's time and several of Chaucer's contemporaries The Franklin Library hardcover books
19637263San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red cloth over boards with gilt illustration on upper board gilt lettering on spine; pp. 12 64 printed in two colors. Limited edition 450 copies. Lavishly illustrated with more than twenty facsimiles of pages from the principal editions a page of the Ellesmere manuscript of "Canterbury Tales" reproduced in full color and a tipped-in original leaf from the 1561 edition. Very gentle rubbing at extremities; tail of spine bumped resulting in some faint wrinkling to corner of text block. Near fine. <br/><br/> The Book Club of California hardcover books
19582260541The World Publishing Company 1958. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Burne-Jones Edward. Very good in good jacket. Jacket toned with some loss along edges a few light spots on jacket spine. 1958 Large Hardcover. xx 554 pp. A facsimile of William Morris's Kelmscott Chaucer including the original 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones with a new introduction by John T. Winterich and a glossary for the modern reader. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343 The World Publishing Company hardcover books
19611319827New York: Golden Press Inc 1961. Hardcover. Large Octavo; pp 139; G/no-DJ; pinkish beige spine with multicolored text; cloth shows modest soiling to exterior; sticker residue to front; sturdy boards; some wear to edges; text block shows slight shelf wear to exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; frontispiece; interior clean; profusely illustrated;. 1319827. FP New Rockville Stock. Golden Press, Inc hardcover books
1946018625New York: Limited Editions Club 1946. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrators. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xx 550 pages of text. Original white leather spine with illustrated boards; a few tiny scuff marks to the spine and minor shelfwear. Protected in fitted archival mylar. The matching slipcase is cracked at one seam with minor shelfwear. One of 1500 copies signed by Benton on the limitation page. Includes the Monthly Newsletter for the Limited Editions Club. The text is clean and unmarked. Minor stain to the closed page edges. First edition. Limited Editions Club Hardcover books
1946001567New York: The Limited Editions Club; The George Macy Companies Inc. 1946. Signed Limited Edition; First Edition Thus. Quarter Leather over Decorated Paper on Boards; with slipcase. Very Good Plus. Copy No. 5 of limited edition of 1500; signed by Arthur Szyk. xx 550 2 pp. With color plate illustrations for each character and a double sided illustration for the entire group in the front all done by Szyk in his highly original ornate appealingly lurid Durer-esque manner. Clean and tight. With paper decoration of a Medieval-style diaper featuring a quattrofoil and cameo within. Some wear to leather more pronounced at tips and somewhat gouped up at lower rear gutter where a clumsy restoration might have been attempted. Still attractive overall. Some edgewear to the slipcase which as a box retains functional integrity and remains handsome with similar diaper pattern to boards but a bit darkened. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club; The George Macy Companies, Inc. hardcover books
1927WRCLIT52322Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1927. Gilt cloth. First edition fifth printing. Poet/publisher James Laughlin's copy with his early pencil ownership signature occasional pencil underscoring and marginal strikes. Spine a bit darkened corners a trifle rubbed else very good. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1930119841London: The Medici Society 1930. First edition of Eleanor Farjeon's modern adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Octavo bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers and all edges gilt elaborately illustrated with full color plates after the drawings of William Russell Flint including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown. A collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400 The Canterbury Tales is is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's magnum opus. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people composing the characters throughout the tales was without precedent in English and the work still offers a variety of insights into customs and practices of the time. The Medici Society hardcover books
