THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1928 FINE RIVIERE BINDING, ILLUSTRATED
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[CHAUCER, GEOFFREY]. The Canterbury Tales. Illustrated After Drawings by W. Russell Flint. London: Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd., 1928.
Popular edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Crown octavo (230 x 150 x 45mm.). Pp. xiii, 637 + illustrated plates. English text. Stunning binding of full marbled calf by Riviere & Son. The covers beautifully gilt ruled and tooled. Twin morocco letter-pieces in the second and third spine compartments. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half-title present. Title-page printed in blue and black with vignette. 24 colour plates after drawings by William Russell Flint, including a frontispiece with tissue-guard. Printed sidenotes. Printed in Great Britain by Percy Lund. Condition: NEAR FINE. Tiny amount of rubbing to extremities, otherwise a fine and immaculate copy. Exquisite.