CHAUCER GEOFFREY Parlement of Foules

Sale 2225 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 390

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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. Parlement of Foules. Printed in red, black, and blue, with initials heightened in gold. Small 4to, gilt-lettered tan boards; uncut and unopened; plain paper dust jacket; slipcase, worn; prospectus laid in. (Boston and New York, 1904)

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number 134 of 325 copies printed at the riverside press for Houghton Mifflin. Written to celebrate the nuptials of Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. His inspiration was the ancient popular belief that on Saint Valentine's day all the fowls of the air convene for mating. The text of this printing is that of the edition of Chaucer in the British Poets, based on the reading of manuscript Gf. 4.27, Cambridge University Library.