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Auction archive: Lot number 46

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$240
Auction archive: Lot number 46

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$240
Beschreibung:

Title: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey Place: [Los Angeles] Publisher: [Plantin Press] Date: [1965] Description: [4], 35, [2] pp. Title-page illustration from the engraving by William Blake; decorations from pen drawings by Mary Kuper. 39x25.5 cm. (15½x10¼"), half vellum & marbled boards, paper spine label, slipcase. One of 115 copies designed by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press, printed in Berthold Wolpe's Pegasus types on an Albion Press by Laurence Cooper and Mary Kuper. Lot Amendments Condition: Slipcase with some fading, starting to split at a seam; volume fine. Item number: 213682

Auction archive: Lot number 46
Auction:
Datum:
14 Feb 2011
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey Place: [Los Angeles] Publisher: [Plantin Press] Date: [1965] Description: [4], 35, [2] pp. Title-page illustration from the engraving by William Blake; decorations from pen drawings by Mary Kuper. 39x25.5 cm. (15½x10¼"), half vellum & marbled boards, paper spine label, slipcase. One of 115 copies designed by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press, printed in Berthold Wolpe's Pegasus types on an Albion Press by Laurence Cooper and Mary Kuper. Lot Amendments Condition: Slipcase with some fading, starting to split at a seam; volume fine. Item number: 213682

Auction archive: Lot number 46
Auction:
Datum:
14 Feb 2011
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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