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The Canterbury Tales

Lot 155
19.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 155 | The Canterbury Tales
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$ 3 000 – 5 000
Geoffrey CHAUCER (c1340-1400) and FLINT, Sir William Russell (1880-1969, illustrator). The Canterbury Tales. London: Philip Lee Warner, 1913.

Limited edition set of Chaucer’s classic work in colorful pictorial bindings. The Canterbury Tales is the sixth title in the illustrated quarto series from the distinguished Riccardi Press, named for the typeface which was created especially for the series. Philip Lee Warner founded The Medici Society with Eustace Gurney in 1908 in homage to the great Florentine family of art patrons, aiming to bring the works of various artists to the wider public through lavish color reproductions via the Riccardi Press. No. 250 of 500 sets. Ransom "Riccardi" 6.

Three volumes, quarto (264 x 194mm). Titles printed in blue and black. Color-printed mounted frontispieces and 33 color-printed mounted plates after Sir William Russell Flint, retaining tissue guards titled in red (light marginal dust-soiling to vol. 2 p. 63). Light brown crushed morocco with color pictorial onlay, green silk doublures, gilt stamped turn-ins, edges untrimmed except the gilt top edge (spines sunned, each with a small spot of sunning on the front cover).
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