Intro by john t winterich (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT; GREY CLOTH, STAMPED INDECORATIVE BORDER LINES MAROON AND GILT SPINE TITLE OVAL. ; 798ps pages; RED TINT TOP EDGE TEXT BLOCK. Illustrated by Pitz HENRY C. ILUST COLOR (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Crisp binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Gilt edging to pages all around. Full leather binding embossed and decorated with 22k gold. Exterior is clean with no evidence of wear. Moire endpapers. Previous owner's name on bookplate, ffep. American novel. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written; 11.25" tall; 165 pages. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Crisp binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Gilt edging to pages all around. Full leather binding embossed and decorated with 22k gold. Exterior is clean with no evidence of wear. Moire endpapers. Previous owner's name on bookplate, ffep. Classic American novel. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written; 10.25" tall; 273 pages. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. *694/1500. Padded blue cloth boards tight and straight, inner pages crisp and clean. Beige spine, gilt spine title. Speckled blue/orange page edges. Frontis color illustration, color illustrations. Slipcase fully intact but copper-colored foil boards are torn in several areas. Signed on rear page by illustrator, American painter Reginald Marsh.; The; 0 pages; Signed by Illustrator.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condition: Boards have minimal warping possibly due to moisture. Binding is secure, some hinge cracking; also shelf cocked. Pages are clean with the exception of original owners name inside front cover. Some foxing on page edges and some staining on page edges. Dust jacket has some edge chipping and tears/staining. Description: Attractive facsimile reprint of Morris's masterwork, slightly reduced in size, with a new introduction by John T. Winterich and "a glossary for the modern reader". Size:9¼" by 13" This edition, scarce complete in original dust jacket, is preceded with a valuable Introduction by John T. Winterich: "Geoffrey Chaucer's is the earliest voice in English poetry that still sounds a clear and universal note." Winterich links Geoffrey Chaucer and William Morris across the span of English history: "Today, endowed with the infallibility of hindsight, we can see how inevitable it was that these two great Englishmen, Geoffrey Chaucer and William Morris, living half a millennium apart, must one day meet on common ground, and that the later of them would build a great and durable monument to the earlier." Winterich describes the great influence of William Morris and his press ("the most important private press in the history of printing") and the virtues of this edition: "The Kelmscott Chaucer has been described as a book for the lectern rather than the lap. The present edition, in which the the page size has been slightly reduced, may legitimately be described as the first Kelmscott Chaucer ever published that is designed for reading.".…