Geoffrey Chaucer. THE PARLEMENT OF FOULES. Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin, 1904.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #2 of 325 copies beautifully designed by Bruce Rogers with French Gothic type in the manner of medieval manuscripts with illuminated initials. Rogers considered it one of his favorites. 8vo in full vellum with gilt title on spine. xxvii, (1) pp. with the two page publisher's note professionally attached to the ffep. VG+. Very light wear. Interior is clean. Ships well-packed in a box.
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 in. x 9 ¼ in. Parchment over boards. Printed in red and black, with initials in blue and gold. No. 27 of an edition limited to 325 copies, printed after a design by Bruce Rogers. 27 pp. Gilt titling on the spine, which has darkened. Foxing to the end-papers. The top-edge of some pages are unopened. Some foxing to the fore-edge and to some pages toward the end. Small bump to top edge of spine. Warde *44.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Parlement of Foules. , 1904.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Parlement of Foules. Original vellum-covered boards. [Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904]. One of 325 numbered copies. Two large initial letters with gilt applied by hand. Warde 44. Designed and printed by Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press. Spine slightly sunned, else near fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$360.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to 325 copies. The present copy is number 278. xxvii, (1) pages. Designed by Bruce Rogers, his device appears below colophon, printed in red and black with two illuminated initials of blue and gilt, bound in full vellum, spine lettering gilt An unusually fine copy with a 2 page printed "Note" from the author about Chaucer and this work laid in.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.