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The Canterbury Tales.

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Illustrated after drawings by W. Russell Flint.

The Canterbury Tales.

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Illustrated after drawings by W. Russell Flint.

Stock Code 112728

London, Philip Lee Warner publisher to The Medici Society Ltd., 1913

An excellent set of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, illustrated with 36 tipped-in colour-plates after original drawings by Scottish artist William Russell Flint (1880-1969), bound in crushed red morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere).

Limited edition, presentation copy, from an edition of 500 copies, this copy unnumbered; 3 vols; folio (27 x 21 cm); 'Presentation Copy' stamped in purple ink to limitation page of each vol., bookplate to front free endpaper verso of each vol., illustrated with 36 tipped-in colour-plates after drawings by W. Russell Flint; crushed red morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), panels ruled in gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, top-edge gilt, others uncut, a few trifling marks to boards, slight spotting to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean, near fine.

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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper.

Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

We exhibit at major international art fairs, including TEFAF (Maastricht and New York), Frieze Masters, Art Miami and Masterpiece London, as well as antiquarian & rare book fairs including New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

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The Canterbury Tales.

CHAUCER, Geoffrey.

Stock code: 112728

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