Roderick Cave Essays (3 results)

[Middle English Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED LIMITED EDITION, a Facsimile of the original 1927 edition. Quarto (34 x 23cm), pp.[2] xii; 310 [4]. Number 610 of 1250 copies thus, illustrated with wood engravings by Gill throughout, printed by Memminger MedienCentrum on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper. Publisher's black full goatskin by G. Lachenmaier, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and decoration blocked in gilt to upper. All edges gilt, with dark grey endpapers. Together with the essay volume, pp.48, with a photographic frontispiece and black and white illustrations in-text. Publisher's black quarter buckram, with grey paper over boards, a plain paper title label to upper, and grey endpapers. Presented in the publisher's black cloth-covered clamshell box, titled in gilt to spine. Just a touch of light handling. Near fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Facsimile edition, after the original. 477/1250. Folio. 309 (2), 48pp. Original black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on cover and spine, gilt edges, with companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. Red initials. Historiated endpieces. Black ribbon marker. Companion volume with frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster, 1927. Exquisite publication and beautifully illustrated in margins with large drawings by Eric Gill. These drawing were perceived by the public as erotic. Modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece, printed on Rigoletto Panna felt-merked paper. "Troilus and Criseyde was originally printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-7, using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum, for the Folio Society, on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. (Colophon). The companion volume "Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem, published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations. " (Imprint). Contains notes at rear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Number 459 of 1250 numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society. There were also 25 lettered copies that were not for sale. This folio sized work was originally printed b Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-27 using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This is an exquisite modern edition of this classic work by Chaucer that is beautifully illustrated with drawings by famed artist and illustrator Eric Gill. It is a facsimile edition, after the original of 1898. Bound in black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on front cover and spine, gilt edges, accompanied with a companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. With a companion volume that has a frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster (1885-1959), a self-styled photographer of men, taken in 1927. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum, for the Folio Society, on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. The companion volume here, Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde, was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem, published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations. " (from the imprint). Contains notes at rear. A beautiful production fine condition in a near fine solander box. 309 (2); 48 pages. Measures 7.75 x 12.25 inches. PRI/101826.…