"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.
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Accession number:
PML 146030-37
Published:
Stratford-upon-Avon : Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Pub. for the Press by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1928-1929.
Description:
8 v. : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Binding:
Blue linen-backed boards.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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