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CHAUCER Geoffrey:. Troilus & Criseyde. London. Folio Society. 2011., 2011.
Price: US$381.61 + shipping
Description: Book and separate book of Essays in black box. All three items are in Fine condition. A limited edition, number 147 of 1250 copies. A magnificent book bound in black leather, gilt etched. Gilt closed page edges. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Essays are by Barry Windeatt and Roderick Cave. Please note this is a very heavy production and there will be additional costs for secure insured postage.
Seller: Gemini-Books, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. Troilus & Criseyde. Folio Society, London, 2011.
Price: US$432.27 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto. Gilt lettered and decorated full black goatskin. Gilt edges. Housed in matching cloth clamshell box. Also includes a slim volume entitled "The golden Cockerel Press Troilus & Criseyde" . This is a facsimile of the original publication from 1926-27 which was a collaboration between the typographer Robert Gibbings and artist Eric Gill for the famed Golden Cockerel Press. Edition limited to 1250 numbered copies of which this is #732. A fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$445.21 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: AS NEW - LIMITED EDITON NO 992 of 1250 COPIES : Accompanied by a 48-page commentary volume, quarter-bound in buckram with Merida paper sides: The Golden Cockerel Press Troilus and Cresyde: essays by Roderick Cave and Barry Windeatt. Facsimile edition. Originally printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press at Waltham Saint Lawrence in 1926-7, using the text from the Glode edition of 1898. Printed by Memminger MedienCentrum, Memmingen, Germany, on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper. Five full page illustrations. Elaborate title-page and decorative borders throughout. Edition limited to 1250 numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society, and 25 lettered copies which are not for sale. Bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather; front board blocked in 22-carat gold with a design by Neil Gower from Gill's original engraving; Merida Indigo end-leaves; all edges gilt; attached ribbon page marker; presented in a buckram-bound solander box. xi, 309 pages : illustrations (wood engravings, facsimiles) ; 32 cm + 1 commentary (48 pages). An unblemished example.
Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 477/1250. Folio. 309 (2), 48pp. Original black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on cover and spine, gilt edges, with companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. Red initials. Historiated endpieces. Black ribbon marker. Companion volume with frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster, 1927. Exquisite publication and beautifully illustrated in margins with large drawings by Eric Gill. These drawing were perceived by the public as erotic. Modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece, printed on Rigoletto Panna felt-merked paper. "Troilus and Criseyde was originally printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-7, using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum, for the Folio Society, on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. (Colophon). The companion volume "Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem, published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations. " (Imprint). Contains notes at rear.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Geoffrey Chaucer. TROILUS AND CRISEYDE. Folio Society, 2011.
Price: US$515.45 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Limited to 1,250 numbered copies, each copy numbered by hand on a special limitation page. Bound in full goatskin leather. Blocked in 22-carat gold with a design by Neil Gower from Gill’s original engraving. Printed on Rigoletto Panna, 5 full page illustrations. Elaborate title page and decorative borders throughout. Felt-marked paper, Gilding on all three page edges, Ribbon marker. Book Size: 12½" x 7¾". 328 pages. Accompanied by a 48-page commentary volume. Quarter-bound in buckram with Merida paper sides. Presented in a buckram-bound solander box.
Seller: Fine Binding Books, Barker, TX, U.S.A.
Geoffrey Chaucer. Troilus and Criseyde. Folio Society, 2011.
Price: US$610.57 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Book unread and in crisp, clean and collectable condition. Insignificant rubbing on slipcase. Limited Edition of 1,250 copies. This is a very large and heavy book. An extra charge will be requested to cover the additional cost of shipping.
Seller: Candleleaf, Poole, United Kingdom
Price: US$623.29 + shipping
Description: 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on Rigolette Panna paper, with decorative title and borders, and 5 full-page illustrations; main work handsomely bound in black full goatskin, elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower, gilt edges, silk marker; Commentary Volume bound in boards with backram back, the two volumes housed in publisher's solander case. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES. Sumptuous Folio Society reissue of the original Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927. The Commentary Volume contains essays by Roderick Cave on the history of the Golden Cockerel Press and Professor Barry Windeatt on the sources, structure and interpretation of the poem.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom