Lot 89

Duff (E. Gordon) William Caxton, one of 252 copies, leaf from Caxton's Canterbury Tales loosely inserted, Chicago, Printed for the Caxton Club at the Lakeside Press, 1905.

 

Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000

Description

Duff (E. Gordon) William Caxton, one of 252 copies, with a single leaf from the 1478 first edition of the Caxton printed Canterbury Tales loosely inserted, 26 collotype plates, Caxton leaf with a few very small stab-holes to inner margin and skilful marginal repairs, original cloth-backed grey-green boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut, cloth slip-case (rubbed), folio, Chicago, Printed for the Caxton Club at the Lakeside Press, 1905.

⁂ While containing a leaf from Caxton's Tales, this copy is not one of the 148 copies originally issued with the leaf in an envelope at the rear of the volume and a special limitation page. The leaf contains text from The Tale of Melibius.

Provenance: H.L. Doolittle (book-label); Mark Louis Callister (bookplate).

Description

Duff (E. Gordon) William Caxton, one of 252 copies, with a single leaf from the 1478 first edition of the Caxton printed Canterbury Tales loosely inserted, 26 collotype plates, Caxton leaf with a few very small stab-holes to inner margin and skilful marginal repairs, original cloth-backed grey-green boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut, cloth slip-case (rubbed), folio, Chicago, Printed for the Caxton Club at the Lakeside Press, 1905.

⁂ While containing a leaf from Caxton's Tales, this copy is not one of the 148 copies originally issued with the leaf in an envelope at the rear of the volume and a special limitation page. The leaf contains text from The Tale of Melibius.

Provenance: H.L. Doolittle (book-label); Mark Louis Callister (bookplate).

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