<p>London: Published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus 1908. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson. Limited Edition of 500 copies printed on Aldwych Paper this copy No.390. Small 4to pp103 plus limitation and colophon pages complete with 20 tipped-in colour plates by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson with descriptive tissue guards. Hardcover no dust jacket. Bound in full limp vellum with gilt titles to spine and upper front board with ribbon ties. Binding in good condition with a little warping to covers and some marking to vellum. Inside all pages with top edge gilt in very good clean condition with a few spots of foxing to pages 66-86. A nice copy specially bound in full vellum. <br /><br /></p> Published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus hardcover
New York: Henry Holt and Co 1911. Hardcover. very good. Keith Henderson & Norman Wilkinson. Small quarto. 26 cm x 20 cm. Bound in gray cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. 20 tipped in colol illustrations with tissue guards by Keith Henderson & Norman Wilkinson. 107pp. Toning to spine and at the top of the rear endpapers. Gift inscription dated 1914 on front free endpaper. Some edge rubbing at head of spine. Henry Holt and Co hardcover
New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
London: Oxford University Press 1929. Oxford Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name inked on FEP. Front hinge starting. Light shelfwear on panel corners. Small closed tears on spine crown. Rubbing on spine heel. Light soiling on front and rear panels. Oxford University Press hardcover
New York: Oxford University Press American Branch 1900. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Owner name inked on front pastedown and second front end page. Front hinge cracked. Gilded top text block edge. Shelfwear on spine crown and heel and panel corners. Oxford University Press American Branch hardcover
Oxford: Oxford 1895. Hardcover. Good. Splendid vellum binding of Chaucer's works. Done by John Bumpus but doubtless outsourced with elaborate gilt decoration to spine and leather labels. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers. Page edges tinted yellow. Printed in double columns. Contains a life of Chaucer plus his works including his Poems his translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy Troilus and Criseyde and of course The Canterbury Tales. 8vo. 195x130mm xxiv 732pp. 149pp. glossarial index. Boards slightly bowed. Light marking and toning to spine and covers. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. <br/> <br/> Oxford hardcover
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poem's production in the first feminist edition of these two tales. Also includes a line-by-line gloss and historical introduction. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : ria9780415001342_inp ISBN : 041500134x 9780415001342
Paperback / softback. New. Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poem's production in the first feminist edition of these two tales. Also includes a line-by-line gloss and historical introduction. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : B9780415001342 ISBN : 041500134x 9780415001342
Paperback / softback. New. Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poem's production in the first feminist edition of these two tales. Also includes a line-by-line gloss and historical introduction. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : A9780415001342 ISBN : 041500134x 9780415001342
London : printed by Adam Islip at the charges of Bonham Norton 1598. Hardcover. Very Good. The Elizabethan Chaucer: An important early English printing that helped establish Chaucer in the English literary pantheon Folio 31 cm. Fine binding by Riviere. Gilt spine compartments gilt ruled cover. Gilt dentelle and turn downs. Attractive and professional reback. All edges gilt. Marbled end sheets. Printed in black Letter in double column. Frontispiece portrait of "the Progenie of Geffrey Chaucer" engraved by John Speed. Letterpress title with woodcut borders. Additionally "The Canterbury tales" "The romaunt of the rose" and "The story of Thebes" have engraved divisional titles; the foliation and register are continuous. Lacking leaves b1 ppiii and iiii and the final 6 leaves 4b iii-vii. Contemporary marginalia throughout in a near contemporary hand. "In this impression you shall find these additions. 1. His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2. His life collected. 3. Arguments to euery booke gathered. 4. Old and obscure words explaned. 5. Authors by him cited declared. 6. Difficulties opened. 7. Two bookes of his neuer before printed." Refs: STC 5078. Pforzheimer 177. Luborsky & Ingram. A Guide to English Illustrated Books 1536-1603 5078. <br> Provenance: Lord Wardington's copy. Signatures of W. Featherstonhaugh possibly George William Featherstonhaugh and Sir John William Pease 1869-1950 First Baron Wardington Armorial bookplate and signature Newcastle. Most recently by descent of Lord Wardington; sold in Sotheby's London July 13th 2006 sale lot 62. <br> Cataloguer's note: The first of Thomas Speght edition of Chaucer's works one of three editions printed in 1598 the others by Adam Islip. This edition contains the first "life of Chaucer" to appear in English. The two additional works printed are: "The Floure and the Leafe" and "Chaucer's Dreame" these are spuriously attributed to Chaucer. London : printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton hardcover
The World Publishing Company 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. An excellent facsimile edition of the famous Kelmscott Chaucer. Embossed cream buckram boards with a gilt lettered spine and uncut bottom edge. It is missing the dust jacket but inside the front cover the flaps from the jacket are inserted. There is minor rubbing around the edges of boards and minor foxing to the edges. The World Publishing Company hardcover
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