The Canterbury Tales - Limited Edition 1980 Copies by Chaucer, Geoffrey - Illustrated by Eric Gill - 2010

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1974. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus, 1974. Bound in full brown leather with gilt title on spine, gilt decorations on boards and spine, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon placeholder, illustrated, 634 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light wear to the tips of the covers.

Pennsylvania The Franklin Library. Pennsylvania. 1974. Size 10 x 6.5 inches. In brown full Morocco leather binding with highly gilt decorated spine and gilt decor to boards. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon bookmark. Orange Watered silk endpapers. In near fine condition. A very clean and tight copy. Slight foxing to the gilted edge. 634 pp. With Coloured plates. Modern English translation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in limited edition with fine binding.

Leather Bound. New.

Leather Bound. New. The Canterbury Tales, Limited Edition (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

Surrey, England: Circle Press Publications, 1978. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Ronald King. Folio (16-1/4" X 11-1/4"). xi, (1), 57, (3)pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine, housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase. Illustrated title page vignette and 14 multicolored silk screen prints. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, signed and numbered by by Ronald King. A wonderful edition with original full page color screen images designed by King. Laid in at rear, within a gray paper portfolio is an original color print (1 of 20 examples of print number XVIII, The Manciple) signed and initialed by Ronald King. Gift bookplate of the Seminary Library of Dayton, Ohio on front pastedown, but without any other library markings.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xx, 550 pages of text. Original white leather spine with illustrated boards; a few tiny scuff marks to the spine and minor shelfwear. Protected in fitted archival mylar. The matching slipcase is cracked at one seam with minor shelfwear. One of 1500 copies, signed by Benton on the limitation page. Includes the Monthly Newsletter for the Limited Editions Club. The text is clean and unmarked. Minor stain to the closed page edges. First edition..

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2011. Deluxe Limited Edition. Leather. Very Good-/Very Good- Slipcase. Complete three-volume set. Deluxe Limited Edition published by The Easton Press. Only 300 copies were produced and this is number 123 and comes with authenticity card. Full red/burgundy leather with gilt-stamped cover illustration and lettering on spines. Included is the complete Canterbury Tales with all 36 full-color illustrations from William Russell Flint hand-mounted and protected by tissue paper overlays with captions. Marbled endpapers, gilt edges, and bound-in ribbons as page markers. Text and illustrations are unmarked and clean. Bindings are tight, sturdy, and square. Bottom back corner of fabric-covered slipcase is bumped but corners of books remain sharp. Books were stored together in the slipcase and became stuck together. In the process of separating them the front cover of volume 1, front and back of volume 2, and back cover of volume 3 have rubbing/light abrasions (see our… Read More

Folio Society,, 2012. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous illustrations, initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Gill in the text; full niger morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, silk marker, Commentary Volume bound in boards with buckram back, the two fine volumes housed in publisher's cloth solander case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1980 COPIES. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel masterpeice, widely regarded as the finest private press production of the period.