Lot 452
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Essex House Press - [Chaucer, Geoffrey]
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£350
Description
The flower and the leaf. London: Edward Arnold, 1902. 8vo., frontispiece and 2 other wood engraved full page illustrations, and 85 historiated initials by Edith Harwood, original vellum, slight stains to the vellum, a.e.g., front pastedown sprung, small purple ink stamp on verso of pastedown, one of 160 on vellum
Footnote
Note: Ransom 29. The sixth of the great poet series. Unnumbered and printed in black throughout only, without any hand colouring. Binding varies from those usually on the Great Poet Series by being lettered in gold on the upper cover, and without the blind stamped rose etc, with edges gilt.