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The Canterbury tales
Title
The Canterbury tales / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; with wood engravings by Eric Gill.
Publication
Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire : Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXIX [1929-1931]
Physical Description
4 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Local Notes
BEIN: Copy one of 15 copies on vellum.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is no. 24 of a limited edition of 485 copies on paper. Bound in brown quarter niger with brown, green and cream printed paper covered boards. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is no. 196 of a limited edition of 485 copies on paper. Bound in tan quarter niger and patterned boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Notes
"This edition of the Canterbury Tales, in four columns, was printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire. By permission of the Oxford University Press the text follows their edition edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A. The first pages of volume I were set on the 6th of June, 1928 and the last pages of volume IV printed on the 29th of January, 1931. Compositors: F. Young and A. H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. 15 copies on vellum and 485 on paper have been printed."--Colophon of volume 4.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
I. The prologue. The knightes tale. The milleres tale. The reves tale. The cokes tale
II. The man of lawes tale. The shipmannes tale. The prioresses tale. Sir Thopas. The tale of Melibeus. The monkes tale. The nonne prestes tale
III. The phisiciens tale. The pardoners tale. Wife of Baths prologue. Tale of thw wyf of Bathe. The freres tale. The somnours tale. The clerkes tale. The marchantes tale
IV. The squieres tale. The frankeleyns tale. The seconde nonnes tale. The chanouns yemannes tale. The maunciples tale. The persones tale.
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Genre/Form
Private press books (Publishing) - England - Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Wood engravings - 1929-1931.
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