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Lot 123
Sale 6004 - Books and Manuscripts
May 20, 2021
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[Private Press] [Kelmscott Press] Leaf from the Kelmscott Press Chaucer
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896). Approximately 15 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (400 x 546 mm). Printed bifolium leaf from The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, comprising pp. (421/422) and 427/428 from The Legend of Goode Wimmen. Illustrated with one full page woodcut illustration on recto, large black and white initial on verso, ornately decorated border on recto and verso, and smaller initials in black and white; text in double column. 2 1/4 in. discreet closed tear in fore-edge pp. 427/428, short tidemark along bottom edge of same; repaired closed tear in fore-edge of pp. (421/422); edges darkened. Hinge-mounted, in mat and in frame (21 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.; 540 x 692 mm).