The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer: An account of the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works From the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times with leaf from the 1551 edition of the Works

by Charles Muscatine

$100 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1963. Folio, 6 , 64 pp. Tipped-in color photo frontispiece of the Ellesmere Manuscript at the Huntington Library, two vignettes, and nineteen full-page reproductions of pages from various editions of Chaucer’s works, from the Caxton to the Kelmscott Chaucer. Also with an original leaf from the 1551 edition of Chaucer’s works tipped in. Some soiling to binding. A scattering of black specs to the cloth, a fine copy internally.

• Printing: later

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