Sale 2617 - Lot 174
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Sale 2617 - Lot 174
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1343-1400)
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet.
London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1602.
Second edition edited by Thomas Speght and Francis Thynne, printed within architectural woodcut compartment with arched grape arbor at the top and a skull at the bottom; full-page engraved plate, The Progenie of Geffrey Chaucer, by John Speed (1551/2-1629) bound before b1; divisional title page with Chaucer's arms on c2; woodcut vignette at head of Knight's Tale; bound in slightly later full calf, worn, front joint cracking, lacking initial blank, 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
STC 5080; Langland to Wither 36; Pforzheimer 178; ESTC S107210.
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet.
London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1602.
Second edition edited by Thomas Speght and Francis Thynne, printed within architectural woodcut compartment with arched grape arbor at the top and a skull at the bottom; full-page engraved plate, The Progenie of Geffrey Chaucer, by John Speed (1551/2-1629) bound before b1; divisional title page with Chaucer's arms on c2; woodcut vignette at head of Knight's Tale; bound in slightly later full calf, worn, front joint cracking, lacking initial blank, 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
STC 5080; Langland to Wither 36; Pforzheimer 178; ESTC S107210.
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.