Accession number
PML 146030-37
Creator
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Published
Stratford-upon-Avon : Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Pub. for the Press by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1928-1929.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Three hundred and seventy-five copies ... have been printed ... of which three hundred and fifty are for sale. Eleven copies more have been printed on vellum. This copy is numbered [...]"--Vol. 1, t.p. verso.
Library has copy no. 92 of an edition of 375 printed on paper.
"The text ... is that prepared under the editorship of Dr. A.W. Pollard for the Globe edition since revised by him."--Vol. 1, index page verso.
Preliminary pages printed in red and black.
The figures of the Canterbury pilgrims have been freely drawn by Hugh Chesterman from those in the Ellesmere manuscript; other illustrations drawn by Lynton H. Lamb after woodcuts illustrating early editions of Chaucer's works.
Vol. 1: 224 p.; v. 2: 212 p.; v. 3: 200 p.; v. 4: 216 p.; v. 5: 177 p.; v. 6: 300 p.; v. 7: 250 p.; v. 8: 252 p.
Library has copy no. 92 of an edition of 375 printed on paper.
"The text ... is that prepared under the editorship of Dr. A.W. Pollard for the Globe edition since revised by him."--Vol. 1, index page verso.
Preliminary pages printed in red and black.
The figures of the Canterbury pilgrims have been freely drawn by Hugh Chesterman from those in the Ellesmere manuscript; other illustrations drawn by Lynton H. Lamb after woodcuts illustrating early editions of Chaucer's works.
Vol. 1: 224 p.; v. 2: 212 p.; v. 3: 200 p.; v. 4: 216 p.; v. 5: 177 p.; v. 6: 300 p.; v. 7: 250 p.; v. 8: 252 p.
Description
8 v. : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Blue linen-backed boards.
Classification
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