Lot 227
Essex House Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Flower and the Leaf, one of 165 hand-coloured copies on vellum , 1902
Hammer Price: £650
Description
Essex House Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Flower and the Leaf, one of 165 hand-coloured copies on vellum, illustrations and initials designed and hand-coloured by Edith Harwood, tissue-guards loosely inserted between leaves, very light foxing to endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, original blind-stamped vellum, some light spotting and surface-soiling, 8vo, printed at the Essex House Press of Chipping Campden, 1902.
Description
Essex House Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Flower and the Leaf, one of 165 hand-coloured copies on vellum, illustrations and initials designed and hand-coloured by Edith Harwood, tissue-guards loosely inserted between leaves, very light foxing to endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, original blind-stamped vellum, some light spotting and surface-soiling, 8vo, printed at the Essex House Press of Chipping Campden, 1902.