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Geoffrey Chaucer, (John Urry, editor)Biblio.com

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Compared with the Former Editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which Three Tales are added which were never before Printed

1721Best.-Nr. 433London: Bernard Lintot 1721. First Urry edition. Modern rebacked calf over contemporary calf boards. Very Good. 'Except for Shakespeare Chaucer is foremost among writers in the English language' Bloom The Western Canon 105. John Urry's 1721 first edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is a landmark early modern publication in Chaucer studies notable for its scholarly approach and historical significance. Urry's work was the first new edition in nearly a century to consult medieval manuscripts directly. Urry's edition also added three tales never before printed including The Tale of Beryn drawn from the late 15th-century Northumberland manuscript. Condition. Very Good. Complete. BOOK INFO Published in 1721 by Bernard Lintot in London. First Urry edition first printing. Bound in contemporary calf-covered boards. Modern rebacked spine with raised bands and the original gilt-lettered spine label laid down. Folio 15 1/2" x 10 1/4". Collated and complete: liv 626 81 1 pp. Original initial and terminal blanks present. Portrait frontispiece of John Urry engraved portrait of Chaucer title-page vignette showing Chaucer's tomb 26 copper engraved illustrations to decorate each of the Canterbury Tales and the one extra for Sir Thopaz woodcut decorated initials and chapter head- and tail-pieces footnotes. English text in Roman type printed in double columns. Lovely wide-margined copy. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343 - October 1400 was an English poet writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature' or alternatively the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. A prolific writer Chaucer has been seen as crucial in legitimizing the literary use of Middle English at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. The Canterbury Tales are an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The Canterbury Tales are widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus and they are revered as one of the paramount works of English literature. The Tales had a major effect upon the development of English literature itself popularizing English vernacular in mainstream English literature as opposed to French or Latin. CONDITION REPORT: VERY GOOD antiquarian condition for a 300-year-old work. Original endpapers. Exterior and binding; hinges cracked binding holding tight. Rebacked spine. Heavily worn and rubbed boards and edges with multiple areas of restoration and repair. Top edge darkened per usual. Interior: Pages are generally lightly toned to moderately toned with some leaves browning and a few bright-white leaves. Browning and oxidation heaviest toward extremities. Front pastedown with extensive faded writing in pencil and partially erased writing and layers of old bookshop stickers at the foot as well as a small pasted-in bookseller listing description at the head. Grubby endpapers and first few and last few leaves with toning and foxing. Tattered edges of endpapers. Additional signs of handling: marginal finger soiling per usual some creasing and smudging a few leaves with short marginal reading tears. Small worm trail on page 43 of the Index to the rear pastedown. Bernard Lintot unknown

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Geoffrey CHAUCER - John DONNE - John MILTONBiblio.com

Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill

1782Best.-Nr. 71140Edinburgh: At the Apollo Press by the Martins 1782. Fine. Twenty Years of Bells Poets in a Single Library At the Apollo Press by the Martins Edinburgh 1782 8.50 x 13.50 cm 99 tomes en 34 volumes reliés Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill Edinburgh Apollo Press by the Martins and London Apollo Press by George Cawthorn 1782-1804 18mo 8.5 x 13.5 cm. An important gathering of volumes from John Bells celebrated series uniformly bound at the time: 34 physical volumes numbered 1 to 35 with volume 8 lacking that volume having contained parts 5 and 6 of Edmund Spensers poetical works. The present set therefore comprises 97 parts actually present out of the 99 that this particular gathering would contain if complete. It brings together thirty-nine British poets from Chaucer to Charles Churchill together with the collaborative translation of Ovids Metamorphoses edited by Sir Samuel Garth with contributions by Dryden Addison Congreve Pope Gay and other eminent hands. The volumes derive from printings issued over more than twenty years: some belong to the Edinburgh campaigns of the Apollo Press others to later London reprints or reissues under George Cawthorn. Uniform contemporary English full tan calf. Smooth spines decorated with repeated gilt tools including a small kneeling figure at the head of each spine framed by multiple gilt rolls; green morocco lettering-pieces. The paper generally clean with occasional browning and foxing particularly to some of the engraved plates. Several headcaps and joints show localised wear or splitting as detailed below. Contents: The poetical works of Geof. Chaucer. 1782. 14 parts in 5 volumes volumes 1 to 5. Losses at head of volumes 1 and 4. Upper joint of volume 1 partly split upper joint of volume 2 split. The poetical works of John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham. 1801. One medallion portrait and one engraved title-frontispiece. Volume 5. The poetical works of Edmund Spenser. 1787-1788. Six parts present of eight bound in three volumes; volume 8 of the set containing parts 5 and 6 is lacking. Head of part 7 slightly worn. Upper joint of part 7 partly split. The poetical works of Samuel Butler. 1797. 3 parts in volume 10. One medallion portrait and 3 engraved title-frontispieces. Ovid translated by eminent persons edited by Sir Samuel Garth. 1801. 4 parts volume 11. 2 engraved title-frontispieces. Loss at head. Joints narrowly split at head. The poetical works of John Donne. 1799-1800. 3 parts volume 12. One medallion portrait and 3 engraved title-frontispieces. Upper joint narrowly split at head. The poetical works of William Congreve. 1784. 1 part volume 13. One medallion portrait and one engraved title-frontispiece. Upper joint narrowly split at head. The poetical works of Abraham Cowley. 1784. 4 parts volumes 13 and 14. One medallion portrait and 2 engraved title-frontispieces. The poetical works of John Cunningham. 1797. 1 part volume 14. One medallion portrait and one engraved title-frontispiece. Losses at head. Joint split at head. The poetical works of James Hammond. 1803. 1 part volume 15. The poetical works of Lord Lyttelton. 1788. 1 part volume 15. One medallion portrait and one engraved title-frontispiece. The poetical works of Edmund Waller. 1784. 2 parts volume 16. One medallion portrait and 2 engraved title-frontispieces. Small tear with loss in the lowest spine compartment. The poetical works of Thomas Parnell. 1786. 2 parts volume 17. One medallion portrait and one engraved title-frontispiece. Headcap slightly and partly worn upper joint narrowly split at foot. The poetical works of John Pomfret. 1787. 1 part volume 17. One engraved title-frontispiece. The poetical works of Thomas Gray. 1800. 1 part volume 18. Slight loss at head. Upper joint narrowly split at head. The poetical works of John Hughes. 1796. 2 parts volume 18. One medallion portrait and 2 engraved title-frontispieces. The poetical works of Joseph Addison. 1803. 1 part At the Apollo Press, by the Martins unknown

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Edited by Lesley Frost, with contributions from Robert Frost, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Makepeace Thackeray, William ShakespeareBiblio.com

Come Christmas: A Selection of Christmas Poetry Song Drama and Prose inscribed and signed in 1936 by Robert Frost to a famous Frost collector and further inscribed and twice signed by the editor Lesley Frost Robert Frost's eldest daughter

1935Best.-Nr. 008712New York: Coward-McCann Inc. 1935. Second edition. Hardcover. This is a lovely presentation copy of the second edition of this Christmas anthology edited by Robert Frosts eldest daughter featuring several noteworthy signatures inscriptions and presentations. This copy offers a compelling and ostensibly unique convocation of associations - including the poet Robert Frost his daughter Lesley Frost infamous Frost collector Earl J. Bernheimer and newspaper columnist and syndicator George Matthew Adams. A two-page facsimile manuscript of Robert Frost's poem "Good Relief" fills two pages preceding the title page. Below his facsimile signature in six lines in black ink Frost signed and wrote "Robert Frost - second signature for Earl J. Bernheimer April 5 1936". The Editor Leslie Frost signed "Lesley Frost" below her printed name on the title page. She further signed and inscribed the front free endpaper recto in five lines three at the upper center two at the lower left: "For George Matthew Adams from Lesley Frost N.Y.C. June 1951". Already unique by inscriptions and association this copy is also noteworthy for condition approaching fine in a very good plus dust jacket. It is an attractive little book bound in blue cloth with elaborate gilt print and illustration on the spine the contents bound with red and yellow head and tail bands and yellow-stained top edges. The dust jacket is striking printed in green red and black on a silver background the holly leaves and banners design of the binding spine repeated in color on both the jacket spine and front face edges with further illustrations on both faces. This copys blue cloth binding is square clean bright tight and sharp-cornered with only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The contents are clean and bright with no spotting no soiling no appreciable toning and retaining a crisp feel. The dust jacket is bright unclipped and nearly complete with only fractional loss at the spine head flap fold corners and the bottom edge of the front face. Light soiling to the rear face and minor scuffs primarily to the extremities joints and flap folds do not significantly mar the books excellent presentation. The book is housed in a marbled-paper-lined black cloth chemise nested within a black cloth slipcase with three gilt-printed dark red leather spine labels. The slipcase is intact though worn with some loss to the perimeter of the labels. The circa 1929 facsimile manuscript of Frost's poem "Good Relief" herein is the first published appearance of this poem which was never included by Robert Frost in one of his collections. "The poem was begun in Beaconsfield England in 1912." It was first printed in the first 1929 edition of Come Christmas and printed again here in the 1935 second edition. The recipient for whom Frost inscribed this copy was one of the twentieth centurys first significant Frost collectors. A wealthy Beverly Hills bibliophile Earl J. Bernheimer began collecting Frosts books and manuscripts in 1936 - the same year Frost inscribed this copy of Come Christmas to him. Capitalizing on Frosts financial anxieties Bernheimer eventually acquired from Frost a magnificent trove of Frostiana with Frost entertaining the hope and understanding that Bernheimer would one day donate everything to a single university library. Instead owing in part to a rancorous and expensive divorce and to Frosts manifest resentment Bernheimer sold off his collection in a famous 1950 New York auction. The editor Lesley Frost Ballantine or Lesley Frost as she always liked to be known 1899-1983 was the second child of Robert and Elinor Frost. She spent her early childhood on the Derry New Hampshire farm that informed her fathers developing poetic voice and where he drafted many of his early poems. It was during her first marriage and after the birth of her first daughter Elinor named after her mother and to whom this book is dedicated that Leslie edited this collection of Christmas Poetry Song Drama and Prose. This 1935 second edition was issued when Lesley was divorced and teaching. She was an author and worked in various fields but her most well-known work was as custodian of her fathers legacy. She eventually served as the first chair of the Robert Frost Foundation oversaw restoration of the Frost farm in Derry and gained an international reputation for her correspondence with her fathers friends and for her articles and lectures on his work. George Matthew Adams 1878-1962 to whom Lesleys inscription is addressed was a newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams News Service which syndicated columns and comic strips to more than one hundred newspapers all over the world over the course of half a century. References: Crane E17; Parini Robert Frost: A Life; Tuten and Zubizarreta; University of New Hampshire; University of Rochester ANB Coward-McCann, Inc. hardcover

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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, GeoffreyBiblio.com

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted

Best.-Nr. 1271682002. Hammersmith: Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press 1896. London: The Folio Society 2002. Large folio 16 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches; 415 x 288 mm. 4 blank ii 2 554 1 limitation 1 blank pp. Printed in black and red in William Morris's Chaucer type with titles of the longer poems in Troy type the text arranged in double columns and edited by F.S. Ellis. Illustrated throughout with eighty-seven magnificent woodcuts after the designs of Sir Edward Burne-Jones redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith and engraved by W. H. Hooper together with the celebrated woodcut title-page fourteen variously repeated ornamental borders eighteen repeated frames twenty-six large decorative initial words numerous smaller initials and Morris's famous printer's device. The decorative woodcuts were engraved by C. E. Keates W. H. Hooper and W. Spielmeyer. Guard sheet between title and first text leaf. Both volumes housed in the original blue cloth clamshell case with cream morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Clamshell with only minor wear and light soiling to the lower spine; the book itself in fine condition. § An extraordinary achievement in modern fine printing and bookbinding. Printed by Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society and completed on 20 February 2002 this magnificent edition is widely regarded as the finest facsimile ever produced of William Morris's Kelmscott Chaucer. Every aspect of the original masterpiece - its monumental format typography illustrations paper and sumptuous binding-has been recreated with remarkable fidelity. Issued in a strictly limited edition of only 1010 copies of which just 1000 were offered for sale this is copy number 125. The Kelmscott Chaucer occupies a unique position in the history of the printed book. Published in 1896 in an edition of only 425 copies on paper and 13 on vellum it represents the crowning achievement of William Morris's Kelmscott Press and the supreme expression of the Arts and Crafts movement. Morris united typography illustration ornament paper and binding into a harmonious whole unequaled in the history of private press printing. As Gordon N. Ray observed it is "not only the most important of the Kelmscott Press's productions; it is also one of the great books of the world." Rather than producing a simple photographic facsimile The Folio Society undertook one of the most ambitious acts of modern fine printing ever attempted. Every significant feature of Morris's masterpiece was painstakingly recreated-from the specially manufactured laid paper and monumental page size to the intricate Burne-Jones illustrations and the sumptuous Cobden-Sanderson binding. The result is not merely a reproduction but a remarkable tribute to the original preserving with extraordinary fidelity both its visual magnificence and its physical presence. Original Kelmscott Chaucers have long been among the great trophies of nineteenth-century book collecting with fine examples today commanding well into six figures. This magnificent Folio Society edition offers perhaps the closest experience possible to owning Morris's masterpiece without entering that rarified market. Produced with exceptional scholarship craftsmanship and attention to detail it stands not simply as the finest facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer ever published but as one of the outstanding achievements of modern book production in its own right. References original 1896 edition: Peterson A40; Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England p. 258; Ransom p. 329; Sparling 40; Tomkinson 40; Waldorf 40; The Clark Library pp. 46-48; The Artist & the Book 45. unknown