[CHAUCER. GEOFFREY]. The Canterbury Tales. Cornmarket Reprints in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1972.
CAXTON FACSIMILE EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (28 x 18.5 x 6.5 cm); unpaginated. English text, with woodcut illustrations. Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere circa 1990 in the period style, full sprinkled calf, Cambridge panels to front and back boards, with a double gilt fillet border. The spine divided into six panels with tooled bands, red morocco label to the second panel, lettered in gilt, all others with gilt tooling. Sprinkled page edges. Condition: An immaculate copy, without previous ownership markings.
Notes: A wonderful facsimile of Samuel Pepys's 1484 copy, which is William Caxton's second impression - the copy now held in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, with a new "Note" by J.A.W. Bennett. On the last page is a wonderful reproduction bookplate of Samuel Pepys, with his personal motto: “Mens Cujusque Is Est Quisque” (‘The mind is the man’).
