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Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020 7:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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[Private Press] [Kelmscott Press] [Arion Press] Group of 2 Leaves from the Kelmscott Press "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer"

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1994. Folio. In two volumes. Limited edition, #24 and #36, of 100 copies, each signed and numbered by bookseller John Windle. Leaf 24 (from "The Legend of Good Women", pp. 433/434; ff1), with one full page woodcut illustration on recto, initials in black and white, ornately decorated border on recto, text in double column on recto and verso, with final line and shoulder note printed in red on verso. Leaf 36 (from "Thisbe of Babylon"), with one full page black and white woodcut illustration on recto, initials in black in white, final line printed in red on verso. Each leaf laid loose in four-page printed folio, housed in quarter blue linen over blue paper-covered board portfolios.

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