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Lot 192

[FINE PRESS FACSIMILES]. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey (d. 1400). The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. [Niles, IL: The Bradford Exchange Press / Char

Estimate: $200 - $400
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$100

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[FINE PRESS FACSIMILES]. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey (d. 1400). The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. [Niles, IL: The Bradford Exchange Press / Charles Winthrope & Sons, ca. 2020s]. Folio. Illustrated throughout. Printed in black and red. 554 pp. Publisher's handsome facsimile binding in the style of the original Kelmscott Press pigskin binding (tan leather, boards and spine stamped in light green, clasps, all edges gilt, four raised bands). 

Condition

Fine, virtually as new. In the original publisher's shipping box. HANDSOME FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE VENERABLE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER. Laid-in is the publisher's COA, #272/1,896, publisher's printed note and Professor Ruth Evans informational letter in envelope. 

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