THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER TOGETHER WITH A VERSION IN MODERN ENGLISH VERSE

Book Description

New York: Covici-Friede, 1930.. Two volumes. Large quarto. Full brown pigskin, stamped in blind, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Plates and vignettes. Neatly rebacked, with much of the original backstrips (rather darkened and worn) laid down, internally fine and with the boards in excellent state. First edition of this new translation into modern English by William Van Wyck, printed parallel with the Middle English text. Illustrated with twenty-five full- page woodcuts of the pilgrims in two colors, and over fifty head and tail pieces by Rockwell Kent. From a total edition of 999 sets signed by the artist, this is one of seventy-five deluxe sets printed on Crane's Old Book paper at the Stratford Press, specially bound, and accompanied by a separate set of five panoramic sheets of Kent's full-plate woodcuts of the pilgrims, each signed by him in the lower right margin. The separate suite is folded in a chemise, and with the two volumes, inserted in a three- compartment cloth slipcase. One of the monumental works of Kent's peak decade as an American book illustrator, published in the same year as his classic edition of MOBY DICK. Scarce with the separate suite of plates intact. STANLEY (GROLIER) 39.

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