canterbury tales prologue di chaucer geoffrey, Copia autografata (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 81pp. Original text from Caxton's First Edition with a translation into modern English by Nevill Coghill. Printed on Zerkall mould made paper by Walter Partridge at the Perdix Press in a limited, numbered edition of 200 copies. This is copy #120. Signed on the colophon by the printer and Mark Franklin, who has written a Preface to the book. Walter Partridge has also inscribed a note to Leslie Thomas in pencil on the first title page (dated 20/2/91) and has enclosed a signed Compliments slip. Bound in brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on face and spine. Maroon top page edges. Green and red sewn headbands. Mustard dust jacket with red lettering on face and spine. Shelf wear to top of spine of dj. Now protected with a loose fitting acetate wrapper. Signed by a Contributor.

Limited edition, 1 of 200 copies, signed. Two wood engravings by Howard Phipps. Tall 8vo ( 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), 80-pages. Original brown cloth gilt; excellent in good dust jacket which has some sunning to the backstrip.

Hardcover. Folio. Blue cloth. xi, 57pp. Full-page color illustrations. Portfolio laid in housing signed print. Very good/fine. Book: a discreet ex-library copy, the only markings being a slight abrasion at foot of spine, 3" X 6" wrinkled patch at center of front flyleaf from bookplate removal and small abrasion near foot of title page. The portfolio and print are pristine. Handsome copy of this hand-set letterpress volume featuring striking original screen images by Ronald King. The laid-in portfolio is titled "Knight" and is the first in the portfolio series. Inside front wrapper features a poem by Roy Fisher titled "Knight," which the included screen print illustrates. (Print is likewise numbered "I" in pencil and is initialed in pencil by illustrator Ronald King.) Though mildly ex-library, quite attractive and desireable copy of the first volume of this 20 volume set, each limited to 250 numbered copies (this #115) initialed in pencil by Ronald King. Second of this edition.

Illustr by Howard Phipps, 10.5 x 7.5, gilt lettered borwn cloth, 80 pp, a very nice copy with only a hint of extremity wear, in a nice dust jacket. LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY MARK FRANKLIN (WHO DID THE PREFACE) AND THE PRINTER WALTER PARTRIDGE.

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. Ronald King (illustratore). Limited edition. 1/250. xi. 58pp. Elephant folio. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine in original blue cloth slipcase. Minor discoloration to slipcase. Illustrated title page. Signed by Ronald King. A wonderful edition with original full page color screen images designed by King. 14 plates bound in with one plate laid in at rear signed by King. Includes a newly produced original signed lithograph by the artist inserted into a folder containing a specially written poem or literary comment, related to Chaucer's text. Slipcase in very good, book in fine condition.

No Binding. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Editions Alecto, London in 1967. Elephant Folio. With frontis and fourteen mask images, each are titled and initialed by the artist in pencil printed silk screen and letter-press in 24 pt Plantin. Number '65' of an edition of only 125 signed copies. The 15 proofs (50 x 37cm) were issued as 15 unbound, four page sections on Barcham Green rag-made housed within a paper wraparound folder. The whole housed within a blue cloth folder with silver titling and the original publisher's canvas slip-case. (There were also separate editions of 50 plus 5 proofs made of all the images except 'Friar' & 'Franklin'). All the screen-prints are present and in excellent condition. The spine of the portfolio is faded. The slipcase is very good condition. The Prologue is held in important public and private collections world-wide. There was also a later (second) edition, published 11years later by The Circle Press. The first edition of 1967 was begun by Editions Alecto, but following difficulties Ronald King took over publication himself and it became the first book of his 'Circle Press'. The Second Edition of 5000 copies (twenty groups of 250 copies each, with a single different loose print in a folder accompanying each group) was issued in 1978. Extremely scarce to find complete as this the first edition. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Illustrator(s).