Lot 407

Chaucer, Geoffrey LACKS PORTRAIT OF CHAUCER AND FIRST BLANK LEAF





Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£1,000
Description
The works of our ancient and learned poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Adam Islip, 1602. Folio, rebacked calf, title page repaired, some foxing, and slight damp- and dust-staining, Lacks the portrait of Chaucer and the initial blank leaf, scattered spotting throughout, dampstaining to most upper corners/upper margins, some soiling and marking, title extensively repaired in inner and lower margin, and with large hole top right affecting woodcut image, 23 leaves towards beginning with worming in lower margin repaired occasionally affecting a catchword,




