The Works Of Our Ancient Learned And Excellent English Poet Jeffrey Chaucer As They Have Lately

by Geoffrey Chaucer D 1400

$10,500 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

FINAL BLACK LETTER EDITION. Bound in 17th c. sprinkled calf, the boards framed by a repeating gold tool. Discreetly rebacked preserving most of the original spine, corners bumped; new endpapers. With the full-page engraved portrait of Chaucer bound opposite the title page and a second title page leaf c1 with a three-quarter page woodcut of Chaucer’s arms. A very fine, crisp copy with trivial faults: a burn-hole in blank margin of leaf E4;

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