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CHAUCER Geoffrey translated by Jerry Kamstra.ABAA

Ye Millerâ€™s Tale from The Canterbury Tales.

Shakespeare Head Press Chaucer GeoffreyABAA

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

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 RiviÃ¨re. 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

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis3 850,00 $US≈ 3 257,48 €