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19749026195Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1974. Hardcover. Fine. In contemporary verse by J. U. Nicolson. With illustrations derived from the Ellesmere manuscript. Published exclusively for subscribers to the Franklin Library collection : The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Bound in the publisher's original brown composition leather spine stamped in gilt. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Franklin Library hardcover books
196256093NY:: Golden Press. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Selected and adapted by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. Second printing thus. Very good or better in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Golden Press, hardcover books
1857128654New York NY: D. Appleton & Co 1857. original embossed gilt-stamped leather five raised bands on spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers. 16mo. original embossed gilt-stamped leather five raised bands on spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers. iv 586 pages. New edition. With the notes and glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt. Addenda follows text. Frontispiece and illustrations in text by Edward Corbould. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Considerable foxing. Signature of J.P. Comegys former Delaware Chief Justice on front free endpaper. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
2274360Appleton Century Crofts 1963. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Lacks jacket boards rubbed. Ink underlining. 1963 Hard Cover. An annotated collection of Chaucer's poetry with helpful information for the reader unfamiliar with middle English. Appleton Century Crofts hardcover books
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
19041216LONDON MORING/DE LA MORE PRESS 1904 1904. VELLUM OVER GRAY CLOTH VERY GOOD. Hardcover. LONDON, MORING/DE LA MORE PRESS, 1904 hardcover books
1915001564London: George Routledge and Sons 1915. Undated but circa 1915. Border designs in green and gilt. Top edge gilt. Front cover vignette in gilt. Cover remains bright. Illustrated with 8 full-page photogravures after Gilbert James each with a tissue guard. The story is from "The Clerk's Tale" done into modern English with notes by Walter William Skeat. The illustrations are in black and white quite charming. Pleasant typography with wide page margins. Text and plates are crisp. Some browning of endpapers. Inscription in pencil on front flyleaf dated "Xmas 1915". 93pp. Blue Cloth. Mild Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. George Routledge and Sons Hardcover books
18861217LONDON GEORGE BELL 1886 1886. TAN CALF OVER MARBLED BOARDS; 6 VOLS "ALDINE EDITION" VERY GOOD. Hardcover. LONDON, GEORGE BELL, 1886 hardcover books
187890435London: George Bell and Sons 1878. Finely bound set of the Chaucer's poetical works. Small octavos four volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt in six compartments within raised bands top edge gilt marbled endpapers tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Chaucer to volume one. In near fine condition. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher and astronomer composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. George Bell and Sons hardcover books
19041218LONDON MORING/DE LA MORE PRESS 1904 1904. VELLUM OVER GRAY CLOTH VERY GOOD. Hardcover. LONDON, MORING/DE LA MORE PRESS, 1904 hardcover books
19071219LONDON MORING/DE LA MORE PRESS 1907 1907. VELLUM OVER GRAY CLOTH VERY GOOD. Hardcover. LONDON, MORING/DE LA MORE PRESS, 1907 hardcover books
1978300820Norwalk: Easton 1978. hardcover. fine. Done into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. 550pp. Tall 8vo gilt-stamped brown leather a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press 1978. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Easton unknown books
1931318064Golden Cockerel Press 1931. Copy no. 358 of 485 copies total edition of 500. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in red black and blue. 4 vols. Small folio. Original quarter brown niger morocco and patterned paper over boards spines a little darkened hint of wear at corners but a fine copy. Gill Eric. Copy no. 358 of 485 copies total edition of 500. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in red black and blue. 4 vols. Small folio. Eric Gill's Canterbury Tales. Universally acknowledged to be one of Gill's greatest achievement and deservedly sought after as one of the finest illustrated books of the twentieth century. Golden Cockerel Press unknown books
WELLER9780199599028New. New book. unknown books
195733317NY: Modern Library 1957. Hardcover. Very good. 642pp; ads. Very good hardback in a price clipped lightly rubbed jacket. <br/><br/> Modern Library hardcover books
54803Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Boston and London: Hale Cushman & Flint; Jonathan Cape & The Medici Society 1928. Popular Edition 1 Vol. Small crown quarto. 637pp. some unopened 24 illustrations pp. 295-296 is torn- no loss navy boards have gilt stamping minor soiling slight scuffing to covers contents show a slight tone otherwise a clean Very Good copy. . Other hardcover books
1946169318New York: Heritage 1946. hardcover. fine. Color illustrations by Arthur Szyk. Tall 8vo handsomely rebound in tan backed marbled boards leather label gilt spine raised bands. New York: Heritage Press 1946. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Heritage unknown books
1798243701Oxford: Clarendon Press 1798. Second. hardcover. very good. To which are added an Essay on His Language and Versification and an Introductory Discourse Together with Notes and a Glossary By Thomas Tyrwhitt. Frontis. 2 vols. thick 4to half 19th century olive green leather over marbled boards lightly rubbed; marbled end-papers and edges. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1798. Second Edition.<br/><br/> Lowndes I p. 427.<br/><br/> Clarendon Press unknown books
1934295547New York: Covici Friede 1934. hardcover. fine. Kent Rockwell. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. xvii 627pp. Tall thick 8vo beautifully rebound in 3/4 burgundy morocco morocco ornately gilt spine t.e.g. New York: Covici Friede 1934. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Covici Friede unknown books
1934292224New York: Covici Friede 1934. hardcover. fine. Kent Rockwell. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. xvii 627pp. Tall thick 8vo beautifully rebound in full tan morocco gilt-tooled spine. New York: Covici Friede 1934. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Covici Friede unknown books
1912243274New York: Macmillan 1912. hardcover. near fine. Now First Put Into Modern English by John S.P. Tatlock and Percy MacKaye. 32 color plates with lettered tissue guards. Thick 4to 3/4 maroon morocco decorative boards. New York: Macmillan 1912. Near Fine.<br/><br/> The Modern Reader's Chaucer<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
19033369<p> The Clarendon Press and Henry Frowde Oxford London and New York. 1903. Beautifully bound in three-quarter vellum over marbled boards. Octavo 732 pages plus useful 147 page glossarial index bound in at the back. Ornamental spine in the Art Nouveau style with gilt twining stem and flowers. Title and publisher labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endleaves matching the paper used on the binding. Pictorial frontispiece. Aside from minor soiling this is a superb example of the Book Arts that flourished at the turn of the twentieth century. This edition of Chaucer's work is edited from numerous manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat noted scholar and professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University. Prized for their beauty and representation of literary achievement these bindings have become difficult to find in fine condition. </p> The Clarendon Press and Henry Frowde hardcover books
1972900961972. CHAUCER Geoffrey. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER 7 VOLS. London: Oxford University Press 1972. 8vo. Seven volumes. 568pp. 506pp 504pp. 667pp. 515pp. 445pp. 628pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt to spine. Fine in fine dustajackets. unknown books
189438511Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1894. Thick 8vo pp. xxiv 732 149; original blue blind-tooled cloth minor soiling gilt lettering edges and corners bumped and rubbed spine cloth starting; text in 2 columns; interior fine. This one-volume edition of the Works includes an abbreviated Life of Chaucer a pronunciation guide and a short essay on the various early editions. <br/><br/> The Clarendon Press hardcover books
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
