[SPECIAL PRESS] THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER [8 VOLUMES]

Stratford-upon-Avon | Shakepeare Head Press: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1929. Limited Edition. Eight quarto bindings; in pale blue board backed in linen with printed paper labels; printed in red and in black or in blue and black, and with hand-colored illustrations throughout; a couple of the labels are lightly chipped, though each volumes has a new label tipped into the rear of the book; the top of the spine of the first volume of The Canterbury Tales is a big bumped; Three Hundred and Seventy Five Copies of this Edition have been Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-Upon-Avon of which Three Hundred and Fifty are for sale; Eleven Copies More have been printed on Vellum. This copy is Numbered 240; with a slip from the printer laid in to Volume One: “The Figures of the Canterbury Pilgrims in this and the following volumes have been freely drawn by Hugh Chesterman from those in the Ellesmere Ms. of the Canterbury Tales.~~The contents of this lovely set are as follows: Volumes 1-3. The Tales of Canterbury; Volume. 4. The Parsons Tale | Earlier Minor Poems; Volume 5.Boece: Boecii de Consolacione Philosophie; Volum e 6. Troilus and Criseyde; Volume 7. The Hous of Fame | The Leegende of Good Women | Later Minor Poems |Doubtful Minor Poems | A Treatise on the Astrolabe; Volume 8. The Romaunt of the Rose.~~The attractive small bookplate of collector Albert Parsons Sachs is on the pastedown of each volume.