Chaucer keith (12 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Condizione: fine. fine Nelson Thornes 2001 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. Original quarter linen cloth over gray paper boards (hardcover) with printed titles on spine and front board (includes extra titles laid-in), Deckle-edges, top edge gilt, silk ribbon page marker, (10 x 8 inches). 103 [1], pages plus colophon; illustrated with 20 tissue-protected color plates, including frontis by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkson. "Rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer." A limited edition, letter-press printed by the Florence Press on hand-made Aldwych paper. Number 322 of 500 copies. Showing some light general exterior wear and soiling, internally all plates are bright and clean. Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited Edition of 500 copies printed on Aldwych Paper, this copy No.390. Small 4to, pp103 plus limitation and colophon pages complete with 20 tipped-in colour plates by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson with descriptive tissue guards. Hardcover no dust jacket. Bound in full limp vellum with gilt titles to spine and upper front board with ribbon ties. Binding in good condition with a little warping to covers and some marking to vellum. Inside all pages with top edge gilt in very good clean condition with a few spots of foxing to pages 66-86. A nice copy specially bound in full vellum. Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Limited, numbered edition, this being number 334 of 500 copies of which only 475 were for sale. Lightly read. All illustrations retain original protective tissues. Age toning to end pages. Scuffed covers. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition thus in toned jacket with long tear along front gutter, tight binding text unmarked. Tissue guarded color plates intact. End papers are foxed. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.…

Condizione: Very Good. Limited edition, number 422 of 500 copies printed. Quarto. Publisher's original limp vellum with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine and with green ribbon ties. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in colour plates with red-captioned tissue-guards by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson (10 by each). pp. [7], 103, [2]. Contemporary owner's inscription in pencil to the front free endpaper. A very good copy, the binding firm with a minor crack to the foot of the font hinge and the odd minor mark to the vellum. The contents with occasional light foxing, mostly to the blank margins of the plates and tissue-guards, slightly heavier foxing to the endpapers, and with offsetting from the plates are otherwise in very good order. A beautifully illustrated edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's translation of the medieval French allegorical poem Le Roman de la Rose with striking colour plates by the Scottish artist Keith Henderson (1883-1982) and the artist and stage-designer Norman Wilkinson of Four Oaks (1882-1934).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. London: Chatto and Windus, 1911, Later Edition. Fine half leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with cloth boards, gilt titles and decoration to the spine, marbled end papers and all page edges gilt. With 20 colour plates by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson of Four Oaks, mounted on heavy stock, all with captioned tissue guards. The 21,000 lines of 13th century French allegorical dream vision, "Roman de la Rose," written largely by Jean de Meun, was rendered into English by Chaucer in the 1360s. In it, a young lover dreams of Cupid, who gives him advice about how to win the lady he desires, symbolized by a rose. A satire on courtly love, which was controversial for its sensuality, the work was one of the most important literary texts of the Medieval period--Chaucer was greatly influenced by it, and incunabular printers perpetuated its popularity with a number of 15th century printings. This 20th century edition is beautifully illustrated, with influence by the Pre-Raphaelites, but displaying some more modern elements. 108pp Provenance: from the Foyle Library with bookplate to the front. Approximately 9 ¾ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine fine condition gilt titles and decoration, five raised bands, minor marks. Joints fine condition sound. Corners fine condition sound. Boards fine condition half leather and cloth covered boards, minor marks and wear. Page edges good condition all edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs very good condition marbled, bookplate. Free end papers very good condition marbled. Title good condition gently tanned. Pages good condition gently tanned. Binding fine condition sound. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1911 Binding: Hardback.…

In-8°gr., pp. (6), 107, 20 tavole f.t. protette da veline parlanti, di cui 10 tra cui il frontespizio dell'illustratrice Keith Henderson e altre 10 di Norman Wilkinson, tela editoriale con sovraccoperta in carta marrone con titolo impresso in nero al dorso e al piatto superiore. la sovraccoperta presenta diversi strappetti con piccole mancanze ed è stata rinforzata nella parte interna con del nastro da restauro . manca la velina della tavola a pag. 42. False (illustratore).…