Sep 23, 2004 - Sale 2013

Sale 2013 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 978
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Workes. Woodcut of knight on A1r; numerous woodcut initials. 1-179, 178-350, 353-375 leaves; lacks the first eighteen and last fifteen leaves. Black letter. Folio, 304x214 mm, 19th-century gilt-panelled brown morocco, spine quite worn, front cover detached; occasional soiling and minor foxing, portions of C6, D1, D2, and G2 torn and restored with varying text loss, some dampstaining, mainly toward end. London, 1602

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Seventh edition. Pforzheimer 178; STC 5080-81. This copy contains the complete text of Chaucer's writings, but lacks the preliminaries (including portrait and title), and the catalogue of translations and glossary at the end.