Lot 64
[Chaucer (Geoffrey)] Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico Latini [translated by Sir Francis Kinaston], first edition, English and Latin text, woodcut architectural title within border, nineteenth-century morocco-backed boards, Oxford, 1635.
Hammer Price: £1,600
Description
[Chaucer (Geoffrey)] Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico Latini [translated by Sir Francis Kinaston], first edition, English and Latin text (English printed in black letter, the Latin in italic), woodcut architectural title within border [McKerrow & Ferguson 276], wide margins, margins shaved at head and tail, slightly browned, bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington on front pastedown, nineteenth-century morocco-backed boards, joints rubbed, gilt spine, [Madan I, p. 183; STC 5097], small 4to, Oxford, J. Lichfield, 1635.
⁂ Percy Lancelot Babington (1877-1950), Cambridge literature lecturer; published a bibliography of Victorian poet, critic, and historian John Addington Symonds.
Description
[Chaucer (Geoffrey)] Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico Latini [translated by Sir Francis Kinaston], first edition, English and Latin text (English printed in black letter, the Latin in italic), woodcut architectural title within border [McKerrow & Ferguson 276], wide margins, margins shaved at head and tail, slightly browned, bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington on front pastedown, nineteenth-century morocco-backed boards, joints rubbed, gilt spine, [Madan I, p. 183; STC 5097], small 4to, Oxford, J. Lichfield, 1635.
⁂ Percy Lancelot Babington (1877-1950), Cambridge literature lecturer; published a bibliography of Victorian poet, critic, and historian John Addington Symonds.