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The Canterbury Tales : Illustrated by Edna Whyte: Rebound In Full Morocco by Hatchards
de Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
-
Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
The First UK printings published by The Folio Society, London, in 1956 & 1957. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill. Illustrated with striking woodcuts by Edna Whyte. Two volumes bound into one. Rebound by Hatchards, Piccadilly in full brown crimson morocco, the spine lettered in gilt with decorative centre tools, striking end-leaves and all edges gilt. Previous owner's decorative bookplate to the verso of the front end-paper. A very handsome production protected in a loose Mylar archival cover. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Sinopsis
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the mistress (c. 1370) and third wife (1396) of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, whose first wife Blanche (d. 1368) is commemorated in Chaucer's ealrist major poem, The Book of the Duchess . From 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 1366 and 1378 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372-3 and 1378. The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s – The House of Fame , The Parliament of Fowls and a version of The Knight's Tale – and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde . In 1386 Chaucer was member of parliament for Kent, but in the same year he resigned his customs post, although in 1389 he was appointed Clerk of the King's Works (resigning in 1391). After finishing Troilus and his translation into English prose of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae , Chaucer started his Legend of Good Women . In the 1390s he worked on his most ambitious project, The Canterbury Tales , which remained unfinished at his death. In 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the precincts of Westminster Abbey but died in 1400 and was buried in the Abbey.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 11111112222233404
- Título
- The Canterbury Tales : Illustrated by Edna Whyte
- Autor
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Ilustrador
- Whyte, Edna
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Illustrated Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Folio Society, London
- Lugar de publicación
- UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 1956-7
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Canterbury, Chaucer, Folio, Whyte
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
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Miembro de Biblio desde 2015
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
Sobre Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
