Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CAXTON, WILLIAM.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. Leaf h6 from the second edition of the Canterbury Tales, with text from the beginning of the Reeve's Tale, and woodcut on verso. Bâtarde type, 38 lines. Folio, approximately 265x197 mm; edges ragged, outer margin dampstained and irregularly trimmed, soiling and crease in lower outer corner, ink blot and tipped-in catalogue cutting on recto, later signature and pen trials of Anne Carpenter on verso. [Westminster: William Caxton, 1483]

Additional Details

Hain-Copinger 4922; BMC XI, 131; Duff 88; De Ricci 23; Goff C432; STC 5083; ISTC ic00432000.