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1983réf. 318782Franklin Center: Franklin 1983. hardcover. 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. Gilt edges just a touch scuffed still a fine copy. 25th Anniversary Edition. Franklin unknown
1934réf. 929introduced by gordon hall gerould; rendered into modern english by ju. nicholson text of 626 pages interspired with illustrations by rockwell kent is unmarked.top edges golden dappled paper endpapers green and yellow doubleday & co hardcover
1924réf. 75747Wien: 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
1946réf. 013727NY: Limited Editions Club 1946. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. About as nice as one would expect to see in decorated slipcase as issued. Designed by George Macy with decorated initials and headings by Charles E. Skaggs and illustrated with full-page color plates by Arthur Szyk signed by Szyk on the colophon. Limited to 1500 copies. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1946réf. 021167New York: Limited Editions Club 1946. Hardcover. Some loss of leather at spine tips and along spine edges. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase with short split along top edge. Arthur Szyk. Large octavo bound in original white morocco-grained sheepskin-backed decorated boards. Designed by George Macy with decorated initials and headings by Charles E. Skaggs and illustrated with full-page color plates by Arthur Szyk. Copy #1420 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1978réf. 21430Surrey England: Circle Press Publications 1978. Limited Edition. Cloth. Cloth Slipcase. Fine. Ronald King With original screen images by. No. 186 of 250 copies in limitation signed by King on the limitation page. Also with original print by King in folder our copy being a print of XII or Tapicer. Folio 40.5 by 28 cm. 57 pp. in pagination. Gorgeous silk screen color prints with rich and vivid colors. The artwork is abstract and its bearing on the actual subject can be obscure to us but the beauty of the imagery is undeniable. The whole production was done at a high level with luxurious woven paper and our copy is completely clean bright and appears virtually untouched. The slipcase has some very trivial soiling a few frayed threads and the like -- it has served its function of taking the beating light in this case for the book and so if we were to assess it on its own we would grade the slipcase merely Very Good Plus. Overall the package is still Fine. Circle Press Publications unknown
1958réf. 14443Cleveland: World Publishing Company 1958. First Edition in this Format; Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good in embossed boards; with a Good dust jacket. A few chips to jacket edges a few small stains to jacket. Toning. Jacket is in two pieces held together in mylar. Text is clean and unmarked illustrated throughout. The Kelmscott Chaucer is considered William Morris's masterpiece as well as by many the most beautiful book ever printed and this facsimile is completely faithful to the original. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. World Publishing Company hardcover
1924réf. 75747Wien: 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
1983réf. 318782Franklin Center: Franklin 1983. hardcover. 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. Gilt edges just a touch scuffed still a fine copy. 25th Anniversary Edition. Franklin unknown books
1978réf. 21430Surrey England: Circle Press Publications 1978. Limited Edition. Cloth. Cloth Slipcase. Fine. Ronald King With original screen images by. No. 186 of 250 copies in limitation signed by King on the limitation page. Also with original print by King in folder our copy being a print of XII or Tapicer. Folio 40.5 by 28 cm. 57 pp. in pagination. Gorgeous silk screen color prints with rich and vivid colors. The artwork is abstract and its bearing on the actual subject can be obscure to us but the beauty of the imagery is undeniable. The whole production was done at a high level with luxurious woven paper and our copy is completely clean bright and appears virtually untouched. The slipcase has some very trivial soiling a few frayed threads and the like -- it has served its function of taking the beating light in this case for the book and so if we were to assess it on its own we would grade the slipcase merely Very Good Plus. Overall the package is still Fine. Circle Press Publications unknown books
1946réf. 013727NY: Limited Editions Club 1946. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. About as nice as one would expect to see in decorated slipcase as issued. Designed by George Macy with decorated initials and headings by Charles E. Skaggs and illustrated with full-page color plates by Arthur Szyk signed by Szyk on the colophon. Limited to 1500 copies. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1930réf. 105633Covici-Friede 1930. Hardcover. Very good/no jacket. Two volumes. Oversized. Illustrated and signed by Rockwell Kent. Appears that library labels on each spine were removed but no other evidence inside. Covers shelfworn and mildly stained. Covici-Friede hardcover
réf. 219767London. William Pickering 1830. . Five volumes 8vo. ccxxii 122 pp. and 354 290348 296pp. Engraved frontispiece to volume I Canterbury Pilgrimage and engraved portrait of Chaucer. Original worn calf professionally re-backed in full calf with five raised bands marbled edges and endpapers internally a very good set. First edition of this editing with an important 200-page introduction and almost 300-page glossary. London. William Pickering, 1830. hardcover
1903réf. 169390New York: MacMillan 1903. Globe Edition; Fourth Printing. Fine binding. Very Good in rebound decorative boards. MacMillan unknown
1928réf. 950Z29London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1928. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5 by 4.5. A. C. Harradine. . The first edition of this Christmas anthology of poetry ballads songs recipes and stories from the likes of William Shakespeare Geoffrey Chaucer and many other renowned authors in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition first impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and many monochrome vignettes and musical scores by A. C. Harradine. This volume features an anthology of ballads songs stories carols recipes and more selected and edited by Wyndham Lewis and G. C. Heseltine. The volume features work from celebrated authors such as William Shakespeare Dr Samuel Johnson John Milton and Geoffrey Chaucer. In the publisher"s original cloth scarce to see in the original illustrated dust wrapper. . In the publisher"s original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with very minimal wear. The wrap has sunning to the spine with slight loss to the head small closed tears to the extremities and light handling marks. Spotting to fly leaves. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages. Letter to previous owner loosely placed to the front. Near Fine J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
1979réf. 932Y4Folkestone : University of Oklahoma Press 1979. Cloth. Near Fine. 11.5" by 8.5". None . A pleasing copy of this impressive facsimile edition of 'The Canterbury Tales'. The first edition thus being a facsimile and transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript. Alongside variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript. In the publisher's original cloth binding.With a coloured frontispiece.A wonderful transcription of the 'The Canterbury Tales' a collection of twenty-four stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387-1400.The lines are demonstrated to the opposite of its respective manuscript page. Edited by Paul G. Ruggiers an American literary historian and with introductions by Donald C. Baker A. I. Doyle and M. B. Parkes. In the original cloth binding. Externally excellent with slight shelf wear only. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
réf. DADAX0198123787New unknown
1856réf. 031601New York: D. Appleton & Company 1856. Book. Illus. by Edward Corbould. Very Good. Full Leather. New Edition. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Brown leather with gilt and tooled decorative front back and spine. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontis with partially torn tissue guard and engravings throughout with tissue guards intact. " From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt Condensed and Arranged under the Text." Worn at corners and spine. Very tight inside. D. Appleton & Company Hardcover
1946réf. 49541New York: The Limited Editions Club 1946. Large 8vo.Signed Limited Edition. Signed limited edition. This is copy no. 1037 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator Arthur Szyk. xx 550 pp. Leather spine over patterned boards. In matching slipcase. Spine slightly nicked & chipped especially at head and foot. In modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. With vibrant full-colour illustrations by Arthur Szyk. VG condition. . Very Good. Leather Spine. Limited Numbered Edition. 1946. The Limited Editions Club 1946 hardcover
1901réf. AQ25635Oxford: Clarendon Press 1901. xxiv 732 149pp 1. With half-title and photographic reproduction of an early manuscript as frontispiece. Finely bound by Mudie in contemporary brown morocco lettered in gilt to spine gilt initials 'B.E.C. ' to upper board A.E.G. marbled endpapers gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Blanche E. Cheekley to front blank fly-leaf. Internally clean and crisp. A Clarendon Press edition finely bound by Mudie of Chaucer's complete works compiled and edited by noted English philologist Walter William Skeat 1835- 1912. Principally known for his Etymological Dictionary of the English Language 1879-1882 Skeat's interest in etymology and philology led to his prolific translation and commentary on early English literature including a subsequent edition of Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe and the still-definitive edition of Ælfric's Lives of Saints. . 8vo. Clarendon Press unknown
réf. 65678For The Florence Press by Chatto and Windus. London. 1908. LIMITED EDITION 500 copies no.482. pp. viii 103 v. Frontispiece and 19 tipped-in coloured plates. Linen-backed boards uncut top edge gilt the front board with some old light smudges heraldic book-plate of VISCOUNT PEEL spare labels for spine and front board at the back very good copy. For The Florence Press by Chatto and Windus. London. 1908. LIMITED EDITION 500 copies, no.482. hardcover
1958réf. 09562The 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
réf. BN117766The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales unknown
réf. DADAX0198111932New unknown
1990réf. x-0582031974Pearson Education Limited 1990. Paperback. New. new ed edition. 600 pages. 7.44x9.69x0.75 inches. Pearson Education Limited paperback
