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Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 500 copies on hand-made Riccardi paper, this no. 265. Three volumes. Quarto. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint with 36 mounted color plates, each with a tissue guard with titles in red. Engraved title pages in blue and black. Bound in quarter natural linen over blue paper-covered boards, paper spine and cover labels, t.e.g. About fine with a bit of spotting to spine of Vol. I, and minor fading to board edges, contents clean and bright, all plates fine Limited to 500 copies on hand-made Riccardi paper, this no. 265.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ~Limited edition: no. 409 of 500 copies printed on handmade watermarked Riccardi Paper. Original undyed quarter linen, light blue cloth to boards. 4tos (20 x 27.1cm). Printed paper labels to front boards and spines. Mild browning to boards. Front board of vol. III slightly dented near base of spine. Tips of top corners of vols I & III, and bottom corners of vol. II, slightly pushed in. Top edges trimmed and gilt, other edges deckled. Hinges sound. With scarce original blue-grey dustwrappers and slipcases. Dustwrappers lettered in black to front, rear, and spine, with Riccardi Press emblem (elaborate interlace after Durer's 'second knot', itself after da Vinci) to front boards. Mild toning to dustwrappers and fading to dustwrapper spines. Minor edgewear to dustwrappers of vols II & III; moderate edgewear to top rear edge of vol. I dustwrapper only, with closed tear (4cm). Original Medici Society price stickers to front cover of all dustwrappers, sticker to vol. II slightly abraded. Small blank label (matching spine) to dustwrapper spine of vols I & III, handwritten number and small ink spot to dustwrapper spine of vol. II (generally Riccardi dustwrappers would have had the number of the limited edition copy written to the dustwrapper spine - in this case the no. visible to spine of vol. II is incorrect, so was presumably covered during production). Slipcases to vols II & III intact, with mild edgewear and marking, with band of fading (3cm wide) at fore-edge of vol. III slipcase. Vol. I slipcase splitting at top edges from front and rear and splitting starting at front bottom edge, but all present. Mild offset browning to endpapers. Title pages printed in blue & black, with vignette per vol. showing the characters whose tales are found within. With 36 colour plates with tissue guards, all guards captioned in red. Illustrations after watercolours by William Russell Flint (1880-1969), arguably the most acclaimed British watercolourist of his time, praised for his 'sensitivity of mood (.) vibrancy of colour and freedom of wash' (ODNB). One of the most impressive productions of the Riccardi Press, here with the rarely found original dustwrappers and slipcases. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: x, 235 + x, 217 + x, 183pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1219.10 + shipping
Description: Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original quarter beige linen cloth over light blue paper covered boards, paper lettering labels to the spines and front covers, top edge gilt. 4to 10½'' x 8''. Contains pp. x, 235, [2 leaves]; x, 217, [2 leaves]; x, 183, [2 leaves]. 3 engraved titles. 36 captioned paper guarded mounted colour plates (including frontispiece). Hand written number 227 of 500 limited edition copies on hand made Riccardi Paper. Foxing to the fore edge of volume three, small scratch mark to the front cover of volume two, contents in Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$1366.74 + shipping
Description: 3 Volumes. 4to. pp. x, 235, [2 leaves]; x, 217, [2 leaves]; x, 183, [2 leaves]. 3 engraved titles. 36 mounted colour plates (incl. frontis.). uncut in original cloth-backed bds., top edge gilt (inner front hinges of Vols. I & II cracked). dws. (dw. spines faded & edges bit ragged). Limited to 500 copies on handmade Riccardi paper (+ 12 on vellum).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, London, 1913.
Price: US$3079.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three volumes complete - Volume One - x, 235pp, [5]; Volume Two - x, 217pp, [5] and Volume Three - x, 183pp, [5]. Original full vellum in DJ's, gilt title to spines and upper covers, t.e.g. DJ spines faded, with ink number (as issued?) to spines. Hint of foxing to fore-edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean. With thirty-six colour, full-page, tissue-guarded, tipped in illustrations by W. Russell Flint (twelve in each volume) as called for. Limited edition of five hundred copies, this being copy one hundred and eighty eight (as per the number on the spines of the DJ's). An attractive set Size: 4to
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: First Riccardi Press edition, number 196 of 500 copies printed on Riccardi paper, deluxe issue bound in limp vellum, and each volume with its original dust jacket and slipcase. The Riccardi Press Chaucer is a most handsome production, attractively illustrated by William Russell Flint, and is among the most desirable productions of the press. The printed dust jackets show that of the 500 copies on paper, they could be purchased in boards at £7 17s. 6d., or as here in limp vellum at £9 9s. There were an additional 12 copies printed on vellum, for sale at £47 5s. 3 volumes, quarto. Original limp vellum, spine and front covers lettered in gilt, green cloth ties, top edges gilt, others uncut. With the printed dust jackets (each numbered "196" by hand to spine) and card slipcases. With 36 mounted colour plates by William Russell Flint with captioned tissue guards. The volumes themselves in fine bright condition, the jackets tanned to spine panels and a little rubbed with a portion of loss (though no loss to titles) from the head of vol. 3, the slipcases lightly worn and tanned in places but all intact.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$34500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Unique copy. Number 5 of 12 copies printed on vellum, from a total edition of 512. 3 volumes, 4to. Full brown calf by Bumpus of Oxford, spines with raised bands, gilt titles, spines and boards tooled in blind in a mediaeval diaper designed with blind tooled symbols; inner dentelles tooled in blind; all edges gilt. Illustrated title pages and 30 color plates by Flint. A fine set. All dropped capitals have been embellished by hand in color or gold, 44 colored, 29 illuminated in gold. Nine full page decorations in mediaeval style by an unknown but utterly competent calligrapher, one to introduce each tale. All color plates have been laid down onto thick paper with captions added by hand, with their capitals added in gold. A scarce vellum edition now a unique copy in the Bumpus binding and illuminations. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.