The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

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Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #46The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

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Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Description

Title:

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

Author:

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Place Published:

[Los Angeles]

Publisher:

[Plantin Press]

Date Published:

[1965]

Description:

[4], 35, [2] pp. Title-page illustration from the engraving by William Blake; decorations from pen drawings by Mary Kuper. 39x25.5 cm. (15½x10¼"), half vellum & marbled boards, paper spine label, slipcase. One of 115 copies designed by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press, printed in Berthold Wolpe's Pegasus types on an Albion Press by Laurence Cooper and Mary Kuper.

Condition:

Slipcase with some fading, starting to split at a seam; volume fine.

Item#:

213682

Headline:

Plantin Press Prologue to Chaucer 1/115
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