The Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey; done into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill and newly revised for this edition; with miniatures by Arthur Szyk
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club; The George Macy Companies, Inc., 1946. Signed Limited Edition; First Edition Thus. Quarter Leather over Decorated Paper on Boards; with slipcase. Very Good Plus. Copy No. 5 of limited edition of 1,500; signed by Arthur Szyk. xx, 550, [2] pp. With color plate illustrations for each character and a double sided illustration for the entire group in the front, all done by Szyk in his highly original, ornate, appealingly lurid, Durer-esque manner. Clean and tight. With paper decoration of a Medieval-style diaper featuring a quattrofoil and cameo within. Some wear to leather, more pronounced at tips, and somewhat gouped up at lower rear gutter where a clumsy restoration might have been attempted. Still attractive overall. Some edgewear to the slipcase, which as a box retains functional integrity and remains handsome, with similar diaper pattern to boards but a bit darkened.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001567
- Title
- The Canterbury Tales
- Author
- Chaucer, Geoffrey; done into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill and newly revised for this edition; with miniatures by Arthur Szyk
- Format/Binding
- Quarter Leather over Decorated Paper on Boards; with slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition; First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club; The George Macy Companies, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Diaper
- aka Diapering A decorative design of repeated diamonds or geometric shapes on the cover, usually on cloth boards. The design is...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.