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Maybe a bunch of you can pitch together and buy me this nice little book.
I've been really good this year. Really honestly.
- Joe :-)
[Fine Printing] Chaucer, Geoffrey. WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER now newly
imprinted THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER IN A MAGNIFICENT BIRDSALL INLAID BINDING
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now
newly imprinted. [Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896]. One of 425 copies on
paper, out of a total edition of 438 copies. Folio (16 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches:
420 x 287 mm.). [4], ii, [2], 554, [2] pp. With eighty-seven woodcut
illustrations after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, redrawn by Robert
Catterson-Smith and cut by W.H. Hooper, woodcut title-page, fourteen
variously repeated woodcut borders, eighteen variously repeated woodcut
frames around illustrations, twenty-six nineteen-line woodcut initial words,
numerous three-, six-, and ten-line woodcut initial letters, and woodcut
printer's device, all designed by William Morris and cut by C.E. Keates,
W.H. Hooper, and W. Spielmeyer. Printed in black and red in Chaucer type,
the titles of longer poems printed in Troy type. Double columns. Edited by
F.S. Ellis. Light brown crushed levant morocco by Birdsall, the front cover
tooled with original border design of leaves and flowers in vari-colored
morocco, centering a reproduction in vari-colored morocco of the pilgrims
setting out for Canterbury and the title tooled in gilt, the back cover wtih
similar border design, gilt title and reproducing in vari-colored morocco
the woodcut on page 482, the story of Troilus and Cressida. Doublures of
wide border of light brown levant morocco on which a floral design of
inter-laced rose-leaves and roses has been inlaid in green, rose, and citron
morocco enclosing a central panel of blue crushed levant morocco, the
linings of dark green crushed levant morocco and flyleaves of brown silk. A
fine copy, in the original cloth box. The Kelmscott Chaucer is "not only the
most important of the Kelmscott Press's productions; it is also one of the
great books of the world. Its splendor...can hardly be matched among the
books of the time" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England). Clark
Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 46-48. The Artist & the Book 45. Peterson
A40. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 329, no. 40. Ray, The Illustrator and the
Book in England, 258. Sparling 40. Tomkinson, p. 117, no. 40. HBS 4612.
$70,000. Heritage Book Shop, Inc.: $70,000
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