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Price: US$901.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd Tyrwhitt edn, pp [viii](title, Advertisement, Contents vol 1), xxv (Preface, Appendix to Preface), 494; [iv] (title, contents vol 2), 650, [2] words not understood, errata; portrait frontis, cont. half calf over marbled boards, both vols sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, labels, blind and gilt decoration, 1981 school prize bookplate to vol 1 fep, owner's ink signature in vol 2, a little foxing to the prelims of vol 2 but generally a clean tight copy, with good margins.
Seller: P.H. Whetman (P.B.F.A.), London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd Tyrwhitt ed. 2 volume set. Quarto, 27. 5 x 21 cm. Rebound in fine modern leather. Gilt stamped title and lettering to spines. All edges marbled. Clean, unmarked pages. xxv, 494; [iv], 650, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait. The second edition was published after Tyrwhitt's death, incorporating the changes from his own annotated copy of the first edition of 1775. Alston, III. 40. ESTCT75508. Lowndes I, p. 427. From the library of the book collector, George Benson Weston (Harvard B.A. 1887, M.A. 1898). Weston was a Romance Professor at Harvard. Includes Weston's colored book plate with an Italian motto.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition. Frontispiece Portrait. xxv, 494; [4], 650, [2] pp. 2 vols. 4to. Full black calf, boards with triple rules in gilt and in blind, a.e.g. Rebacked with black morocco spines gilt. Scuff at head of vol. I, some foxing, paper repair to A3 Frontispiece Portrait. xxv, 494; [4], 650, [2] pp. 2 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1798.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: To which are added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Together with Notes and a Glossary, By Thomas Tyrwhitt. Frontis. 2 vols. thick 4to, half 19th century olive green leather over marbled boards (lightly rubbed); marbled end-papers and edges. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1798. Second Edition. Lowndes I, p. 427.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition; published posthumously, incorporating the late editor's changes annotated in his own copy of the original edition. Two volumes; some foxing; bound in late 19th or early 20th century full morocco; raised bands; gilt geometric designs on the covers and the edges; some color touch-up here and there; a very good set. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: Quartos, Two Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in contemporary full polished calf, spines rebacked with gilt tooling, paneled with morocco label and gilt titling. Boards show some rubbing and scraping, and uneven fading to rear cover of Volume One. Text block has wide margins, ownership pen marks to front pastedowns, first and second free end pages of Volume One, and slight offsetting onto title page (from frontispiece) in Volume One. Page edges marbled. Shelved case 3. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. "Chaucer's reputation had suffered because the principles on which his verse depends were no longer understood; it was Tyrwhitt who pointed out that final e's (by his time mute) ought to be pronounced as separate syllables and that the accent of a word was often placed in the French manner (e.g., virtúe, not vírtue). Tyrwhitt's scholarship is still held in great respect." [Britannica]. ESTC: T75508. 1338815. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1651.81 + shipping
Description: Very good copies both in the original, full contemporary gilt-blocked burgundy Morocco. Raised bands with the titles blocked direct in gilt. Minor, generalized wear and toning to the spine bands and panel edges. An uncommonly good example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical desc.: 2 v.,plate : port. ; (4to). Referenced by: Alston III.40. English Short Title Catalog, T75508. Subject: Songs, English - 17th century. 5 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$1804.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copies both in the original, full contemporary gilt-blocked burgundy Morocco. Raised bands with the titles blocked direct in gilt. Minor, generalized wear and toning to the spine bands and panel edges. An uncommonly good example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical desc.: 2 v.,plate : port. ; (4to). Referenced by: Alston III.40. English Short Title Catalog, T75508. Subject: Songs, English - 17th century. 5 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2512.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An exceptionally bright copy of the second Thomas Tyrwhitt edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's middle English Canterbury Tales. This second edition was published after Tyrwhitt's death, incorporating the changes from his own annotated copy of the first edition of 1775.With a portrait frontispiece to volume I.A beautiful late eighteenth century edition of Chaucer's magnum opus, a collection of twenty-four stories running over seventeen-thousand lines.ESTC reference number T75508.With the register: [5] a-s4, B-3Q4, 3R3; [2], B-4N4, 4O2. Collated, complete.With the armorial bookplate Francis Saxham Elwes Drury to the front pastedown of volume I. The great-grandson of a Harrow School headmaster, Elwes married an American heiress, the daughter of Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry.A handsome copy of Tyrwhitt's second edition of Chaucer's work. In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Volume II sympathetically rebacked, retaining original endpapers. Light rubbing to volume I joints. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown of volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom