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ONE OF ONLY TWELVE VELLUM COPIES (FLORENCE PRESS.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Romaunt of the Rose. 10 tipped-in color plates by Norman Wilkinson and 10

ONE OF ONLY TWELVE VELLUM COPIES (FLORENCE PRESS.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Romaunt of the Rose. 10 tipped-in color plates by Norman Wilkinson and 10 by Keith Henderson, each plate in two states and with lettered tissue guards. 4to, richly-tooled binding of gilt roses surrounded by a border of roses with red calf onlays, also in spine compartments and turn-ins, by Rivière and Son, joints tender and beginning to crack, tips and spine ends slightly rubbed; scattered light foxing and dampwrinkling, few tissue guards creased. London, 1908

  • Notes: one of only twelve numbered copies printed on vellum with a double set of the illustrations. Published by Chatto and Windus for the Florence Press. A truly beautiful work in a lovely binding.

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