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	1	CHAUCER'S ROMAUNT AND THE ROSE, TROILUS AND CRESEIDE, AND THE MINOR POEMS [3 VOLS] Chaucer, Geoffrey London William Pickering 1846 1st Thus Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Bound in full polished calf with minor wear. Small chip to upper corner of vol III. Elegant decorative spines. These are the complementary volumes published in 1846 to finish the work originally publised in 1830. Provenance- armorial bookplate designed by WF Hopson displaying owner's entwined intials. 27286 Price: 399.95 USD
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	2	THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, COMPARED WITH THE FORMER EDITIONS, AND MANY VALUABLE MSS. OUT OF WHICH, THREE TALES ARE ADDED WHICH WERE NEVER BEFORE PRINTED Chaucer, Geoffrey (?1340-1400) [Ed. John Urry] London Bernard Lintot, 1721 Hardcover Good with no dust jacket B&W Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tal; 626, 81 pages; The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Compared With the Former Editions, and Many Valuable MSS. Out of Which, Three Tales are Added Which Were Never Before Printed, by John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon. Deceased: Together With a Glossary, By a Student of the Same College. To the Whole is Prefixed the Author's Life, Newly Written, and a Preface, Giving an Account of This Edition. . A. E. G. 81pp glossary. Headpieces, tailpieces, illustrations. Folio, double column, engraved portraits of Urry (by Pigué) and Chaucer (by Vertue) , engraved title page, copperplate frontis portraits of Urry and Chaucer, 23 copperplate part-page engravings of each of tale tellers in the Canterbury saga in The Canterbury Tales, eighteenth-century. Plate of Urry and pages 373-6 are supplied in facsimile. Contemporary speckled calf leather, Worn and rubbed but . Perhaps the most accessible and attractive of editions of Chaucer until the 19th Century. ESTCN 66255, ESTCT106027. Contents clean and bright with no foxing and only very light aging. First couple leaves toned. 28762 Price: 599.95 USD
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	3	TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Limited-Edition 108/1500 Chaucer, Geoffrey / Gill, Eric London The Limited Editions Club 1939 Hardcover Fine with no dust jacket Illustrated by George W. Jones We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Aproximate packaged weight of 1000 grams 19041 Price: 89.95 USD
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