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1993047376Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press 1993. 1st Edition. Critical commentary by Malcolm etc. xxvii 298p. colored front. original tan cloth quarto format A variourm edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer 2 pt 1A. University of Oklahoma Press unknown books
1984047377Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1984. xxvii 146p. colored front. original tan cloth quarto format A variorum edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer v. 2 part 10. University of Oklahoma Press unknown 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
19023064Guildford: A. C Curtis; the Astolat Press 1902. Original flexible vellum with gilt lettering and designs within a green-blocked central area. One of 25 Numbered Copies by the Astolat Press. Printed on fragile paper which has uniformly warped into an "S" shaped pattern. Scarce thus. <br/><br/> A. C Curtis; the Astolat Press hardcover books
192475747Wien: Artur Wolf Verlag. Very Good. 1924. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in green paper covered boards with gilt and black stamping to the upper cover with a gilt stamped white spine. The covers show light scuffing sunning to the edges edge-wear and rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The spine is scuffed and toned. There is some wrinkling to the upper cover. The text-block is cracked at a few spots showing the beginning of separation. The contents are bright and clean with very nice tipped-in color illustrations. . Artur Wolf Verlag hardcover books
1974299451Franklin Center: Franklin 1974. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated in color with some historical facsimiles. 634 pages. Large thick 8vo gilt-stamped brown leather a.e.g. Franklin Library 1974. Ownership blind-stamp on half title and some very minor scuffing at edges otherwise fine.<br/><br/> Franklin unknown books
192968192With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press 1929-1931. One of 485 numbered copies on Batchelor handmade paper out of a total edition of 500 copies. Stated "File Copy" on colophon page in lieu of a limitation number. Four folio volumes 12 x 7 1/2 inches; 307 x 190 mm. One full-page illustration twenty-nine half-page illustrations 269 decorative borders tail-pieces and line-fillers and sixty-one initial letters printed in black red or blue all engraved on wood by Eric Gill. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter niger morocco over patterned boards. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands. Top edge gilt others uncut. Spines lightly sunned to different degrees. A few very tiny chips to spines. Tips slightly bumped and with some rubbing. Housed in a morocco-tipped cloth slipcase. Overall a handsome and desirable set which shows very well and the text is very clean. ìMost of the borders are leaf and stem but among the leaves hiding or beckoning climbing or leaning out are girls and men kings and boys priests and nuns who take part or seem to be commenting upon the stories.the pattern continues affectionate and cheeky erotic enjoyable and relevant decorative and explanatory a balance of taste and eye. Borders are repeated sometimes in new combinations. To start a new tale we have more elaborate and descriptive work with a red or blue initial letter.There they are the characters in the tale with their stage scenery.One other quality in these borders should be noticedótheir mannerism the distortion of human figures sometimes so that they almost share the forms of leaf and stemóand sometimes grow from them. It is another rather touching aspect of GillÃs idea and all these manners work towards a single artóthe poetry people leaves decoration and explanation. Author artist and printer have shared one concept and expressed itî Colin Franklin The Private Presses pp. 143-144. Chanticleer 63. Gill 281. HBS 68192. $10000 Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1983290471Franklin Center: Franklin 1983. hardcover. near fine. Two volumes. Translation into modern English by J. U. Nicolson illustrations by Edward Coley Burne-Jones borders by William Morris. 1119 pages continuous pagination 8vo gilt-decorated green leather a.e.g. Franklin Center: The Franklin Library 1983. Minor spotting to the gilt edges else a fine copy.<br/><br/> 25th Anniversary Edition. Has the separately printed Notes from the Editors<br/><br/> Franklin unknown books
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
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
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
190921761London: The Riccardi Press 1909. Hardcover. Very good. Flint W. Russell. The original gray cloth portfolio housing a duplicate set of all 36 color plates that W. Russell Flint produced for the original limited edition. This portfolio presumably accompanied one of the 12 copies printed on vellum. Mild rippling to plates and some edgewear to portfolio but a very nice set of a scarce item. None available online. <br/><br/> The Riccardi Press hardcover books
19346345Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing 1934. Hardcover. VG a bright copy overall. Brown cloth. xvi 627 pp. countless plates and vignett. Filled with full-page plates and vignettes drawn by Kent. A very nice copy. Contents as follows: The knight's tale -- The miller's tale -- The man of law's tale -- The clerk's tale -- The second nun's tale -- The friar's tale -- The nun's priest's tale -- The reeve's tale -- The franklin's tale -- The wife of Bath's tale -- The monk's tale -- The pardoner's tale -- The prioress's tale -- Chaucer's tale of Melibee. Garden City Publishing 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
1992Embry 190157Everyman's Library 1992. Later printing. Fine. Gray cloth no dust jacket. Everyman's Library, 1992. Later printing. 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
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
19781221New York New York U.S.A.: New York Dodd Mead 1978. 1978. First edition. Small 4to. 16 color plates over 200 b/w illustrations pictorial endpapers. Bibliography discography. Dust jacket price clipped. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. New York, Dodd, Mead [1978]. hardcover books
1973304869San Marino The Huntington Library 1973. 1973. First edition. 8vo. 12 b/w illustrations. Bibliography. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 165 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by Anderson Ritchie and Simon. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. [San Marino] The Huntington Library, 1973. hardcover books
1964355Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press 1964. vii 247p. dj ex libris. University of Notre Dame Press unknown books
19601297862New York: Russell & Russell 1960. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; hardcover; bound in dark blue cloth gilt lettering; boards have some shelfwear soiling on rear rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges sticker on spine; text block slightly age toned pages uneven on fore edges; volume 1 only; cxliv 504pp. 1297862. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Russell & Russell 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
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
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
