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Lot 555
Sale 437 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 5, 2016
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(CAXTON CLUB) DUFF, E. GORDON
William Caxton. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1905.Folio, original publisher's cloth and paper-covered boards. First edition, limited to 252 copies. Contains 25 plates with facsimiles of Caxton's types and wood-cuts. This copy one of 148 copies containing a leaf from an imperfect copy of the first edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, printed by Caxton in 1478. Bookplates of John Davies Cuyps.





