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1913réf. 23568London: Philip Lee Warner; The Medici Society 1913. First Flint edition. Hardcover. Fine. Unique copy. Number 5 of 12 copies printed on vellum from a total edition of 512. 3 volumes 4to. Full brown calf by Bumpus of Oxford spines with raised bands gilt titles spines and boards tooled in blind in a mediaeval diaper designed with blind tooled symbols; inner dentelles tooled in blind; all edges gilt. Illustrated title pages and 30 color plates by Flint. A fine set. All dropped capitals have been embellished by hand in color or gold 44 colored 29 illuminated in gold. Nine full page decorations in mediaeval style by an unknown but utterly competent calligrapher one to introduce each tale. All color plates have been laid down onto thick paper with captions added by hand with their capitals added in gold. A scarce vellum edition now a unique copy in the Bumpus binding and illuminations. . Philip Lee Warner; The Medici Society hardcover
1913réf. 23568London: Philip Lee Warner; The Medici Society 1913. First Flint edition. Hardcover. Fine. Unique copy. Number 5 of 12 copies printed on vellum from a total edition of 512. 3 volumes 4to. Full brown calf by Bumpus of Oxford spines with raised bands gilt titles spines and boards tooled in blind in a mediaeval diaper designed with blind tooled symbols; inner dentelles tooled in blind; all edges gilt. Illustrated title pages and 30 color plates by Flint. A fine set. All dropped capitals have been embellished by hand in color or gold 44 colored 29 illuminated in gold. Nine full page decorations in mediaeval style by an unknown but utterly competent calligrapher one to introduce each tale. All color plates have been laid down onto thick paper with captions added by hand with their capitals added in gold. A scarce vellum edition now a unique copy in the Bumpus binding and illuminations. . Philip Lee Warner; The Medici Society hardcover books
1550réf. 3936London: Wyllyam Bonham n.d. 1550 1550. Third collected edition ESTC describes it as one of four variants of this date with different publisher's names in the colophon. The text is the version edited by William Thynne. Folio. 295x197mm. ff. 8 cxciii cxciii-cc ccii-ccvii ccx-cclxxi cclxxiii-cclxxvii cclxxix-ccclv. Lacking final blank leaf. Printed in double columns woodcut initials and woodcuts of the Knight and the Squire. The Romaunt of the Rose has a separate title. Full brown sheep single fillet border to covers with corners decorated with crowned garlands framing dolphins. Spine with five raised bands compartments decorated in gilt. Red edges. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Mr Baron Maule and Kenneth Rapoport. Front free endpaper has armorial bookplate of Newton Hall Cambridge and ownership inscription of Jo. Maule. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss. Hinges strengthened. Some damp-staining to first gathering which is also a little loose. A very nice copy in a smart eighteenth century binding of the Thynne edition published jointly by four London booksellers. Although all copies are undated William Bonham the publisher of this copy is known to have been at the Red Reed Lion address in 1551 so a date of 1550 is generally agreed. All variants are rare ESTC recording this one in seven UK libraries and eight in the US. ESTC: S108819 London: Wyllyam Bonham n.d. [1550] hardcover
1532réf. 69608London: Printed.by Thomas Godfray 1532. RIVIÈRE & SON. . The workes of Geffray Chaucer. newly printed with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere. London: Printed.by Thomas Godfray 1532. Full Description: CHAUCER Geoffrey. The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere. London: Printed.by Thomas Godfray 1532. The first collected edition of Chaucer's works and the first attempt at historical editing of any English author. Folio in sixes 11 11/16 x 8 1/8 inches; 297 x 205 mm. 397 leaves plus an additional leaf Qq7 containing compartment for divisional title on recto 22 xiii-CCxix 4 CCxx-CCC CCC-CCClxxxiii leaves. With fourteen leaves including title in facsimile A1-A4 B1 I4 Qq4 Qq5 Qq7 and Vvv2-Vvv6. Black letter. Forty-eight lines plus headline double columns. Several sets of decorated initials and lombards used as initials a few capital spaces with guides. Fifteen woodcuts in the Canterbury Tales three repeated one three times a total of twenty impressions. Edited by William Thynne. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son in full brown morocco. Covers decoratively panelled in blind spine in six compartments with five raised bands gilt-lettered in two compartments and decoratively tooled in blind in the remaining four board edges and turn-ins ruled in blind all edges gilt. A few early ink annotations. Housed in a custom full brown morocco clamshell. Box with some tape repairs at edges. Overall a very good copy. The first collected edition of Chaucer deserves to rank in many ways with the 1623 First Folio edition of Shakespeare. The editor William Thynne was chief clerk of the kitchen in Henry VIII's household and accrued a wide variety of lucrative preferments. His dedication to Henry VIII actually written by Sir Brian Tuke contains many interesting remarks on the development of language and on Thynne's efforts at forming an "author collection" of Chaucer both manuscript and printed. The source for the Canterbury Tales was Wynkyn de Worde's 1498 edition collated with several manuscripts. Besides authentic works Thynne included some two dozen inauthentic poems making this the largest compendium of Middle English poetry heretofore published. In all twenty-one of the poems in the collection are first printings including four authentically by Chaucer: "The Book of the Duchess" "The Complaint unto Pity" "Lack of Steadfastness and "The Legend of Good Women." Thynne has often by criticized for publishing so many inauthentic poems in his Chaucer but this is unhistorical; nor is it even clear that he was making an active claim of authenticity for all that was included. His edition established the vulgate text of Chaucer for well over two centuries until Tyrwhitt's great edition of the Canterbury Tales appeared in 1775 see Sotheby's New York 29 October 1996 lot 346. "The woodcuts of the Knight and the Squire are here used for the first time as Chaucer illustrations the former is a close copy of the cut used in the Pynson 1526 edition but the rest belong to the original series of blocks cut for Caxton's second edition of the Canterbury Tales 1484" Pforzheimer. Pforzheimer 173. STC 5068. HBS 69608. $125000. Printed...by Thomas Godfray unknown
1532réf. 69608London: Printed.by Thomas Godfray 1532. RIVIÈRE & SON. . The workes of Geffray Chaucer. newly printed with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere. London: Printed.by Thomas Godfray 1532. Full Description: CHAUCER Geoffrey. The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere. London: Printed.by Thomas Godfray 1532. The first collected edition of Chaucer's works and the first attempt at historical editing of any English author. Folio in sixes 11 11/16 x 8 1/8 inches; 297 x 205 mm. 397 leaves plus an additional leaf Qq7 containing compartment for divisional title on recto 22 xiii-CCxix 4 CCxx-CCC CCC-CCClxxxiii leaves. With fourteen leaves including title in facsimile A1-A4 B1 I4 Qq4 Qq5 Qq7 and Vvv2-Vvv6. Black letter. Forty-eight lines plus headline double columns. Several sets of decorated initials and lombards used as initials a few capital spaces with guides. Fifteen woodcuts in the Canterbury Tales three repeated one three times a total of twenty impressions. Edited by William Thynne. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son in full brown morocco. Covers decoratively panelled in blind spine in six compartments with five raised bands gilt-lettered in two compartments and decoratively tooled in blind in the remaining four board edges and turn-ins ruled in blind all edges gilt. A few early ink annotations. Housed in a custom full brown morocco clamshell. Box with some tape repairs at edges. Overall a very good copy. The first collected edition of Chaucer deserves to rank in many ways with the 1623 First Folio edition of Shakespeare. The editor William Thynne was chief clerk of the kitchen in Henry VIII's household and accrued a wide variety of lucrative preferments. His dedication to Henry VIII actually written by Sir Brian Tuke contains many interesting remarks on the development of language and on Thynne's efforts at forming an "author collection" of Chaucer both manuscript and printed. The source for the Canterbury Tales was Wynkyn de Worde's 1498 edition collated with several manuscripts. Besides authentic works Thynne included some two dozen inauthentic poems making this the largest compendium of Middle English poetry heretofore published. In all twenty-one of the poems in the collection are first printings including four authentically by Chaucer: "The Book of the Duchess" "The Complaint unto Pity" "Lack of Steadfastness and "The Legend of Good Women." Thynne has often by criticized for publishing so many inauthentic poems in his Chaucer but this is unhistorical; nor is it even clear that he was making an active claim of authenticity for all that was included. His edition established the vulgate text of Chaucer for well over two centuries until Tyrwhitt's great edition of the Canterbury Tales appeared in 1775 see Sotheby's New York 29 October 1996 lot 346. "The woodcuts of the Knight and the Squire are here used for the first time as Chaucer illustrations the former is a close copy of the cut used in the Pynson 1526 edition but the rest belong to the original series of blocks cut for Caxton's second edition of the Canterbury Tales 1484" Pforzheimer. Pforzheimer 173. STC 5068. HBS 69608. $125000. Printed...by Thomas Godfray unknown books
1896réf. 001577Hammersmith London: Kelmscott Press 1896. 4 i-ii 3 2-554pp. Later full pigskin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe raised bands spine in seven panels title in gilt to second panel publisher and date to foot remaining panels with thick and thin line borders a central tudor rose with lions above and below and fleur-de-lis to either side and small flower head corner pieces. Covers with thick and thin line borders tudor rose corner and side pieces with repeated lion and flower head tools in broken panels surrounding inner single line frame with fleur-de-lis corner pieces. Spine lightly browned minor rubbing to extremities internally bright and clean. Housed in a pigskin backed drop back box. The crowning achievement of Morris's press famous before it even came off the press one of four hundred and twenty-five copies printed on 'Perch' paper in 'Chaucer' and 'Troy' type in double column and in red and black. With wood engraved title borders and initials by C. E. Keates W. H. Hooper and W. Spielmeyer after designs by Morris and eighty-seven text illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones redrawn in ink by R. Catterson-Smith and engraved by W. H. Hooper. See Franklin page 201; Peterson A40; Tomkinson page 117. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good. Illus. by Burne-Jones Edward; Morris William; Harcourt Hooper William. Folio. Kelmscott Press Hardcover
