Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works. 8 volumes. Printed in red, blue, and black. Headings and initials drawn in color by Jocelyn V. Gaskin, hand-colored marginal drawings by Hugh Chesterman. 8vo, original linen-backed blue boards with printed paper spine labels, scattered discoloration and some soiling to spines and labels (heaviest on Canterbury Tales); additional spine labels laid into each volume. number 148 of 375 sets published by Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press. Ransom 60. GG. Oxford. 1928-29