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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Works, 8 vol., Shakespeare Head Press, 1928-1929, and others (13)
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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS
CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Works, 8 vol., number 137 of 375 copies on handmade paper, printed in red, blue and black, illustrations (many hand-coloured) by Hugh Chesterman, 4-page specimen leaf, and errata slip loosely inserted, small damp spot on one spine, 1928-1929--OVID. Hys Booke of Methamorphose Books X-XV. Translated by William Caxton, number 30 of 275 copies, printed in red and black, 1924--TATIUS (ACHILLES) The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe... Translated... by William Burton, number 164 of 394 copies, printed in red and black, soiled with some loss to spine label, 1923--PINDAR. Odes of Victory... a Translation into English Verse by C.J. Billson, 2 vol., number 45 of 250 copies, woodcut illustrations by John Farleigh, prospectus loosely inserted, 1928--SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY) The School for Scandal, limited to 475 copies, illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky, publisher's half parchment over patterned boards, 1930, all but the last publisher's cloth-backed boards, small folio (13)



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