[CAXTON, WILLIAM, printer]. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. Canterbury Tales. [Westminster 1477]. One leaf, pp. 49-50, containing lines 2538 to 2594 of the Knight's Tale. Folio, 241 x 167 mm. (9½ x 6 9/16 in.), gutter margin dampstained. Type 2: 135B. 29 lines. HC 4921; GW 6585; Proctor 9626; Goff C-431; De Ricci Caxton 22.23. Provenance: Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (sale, Sotheby's, part III, 9 May 1898, lot 4061, Quaritch); Roger Hawes West, bookplates. [Laid in pocket at end of:] DUFF, E. GORDON. William Caxton. Chicago: The Caxton Club 1905. 4to, 310 x 240mm. (12 1/8 x 9½ in.), original grey boards, red buckram spine, uncut, spine and corners worn, foxed, modern dark green morocco gilt slipcase by Max J. Adjarian. LIMITED EDITION, one of 148 copies thus with the original leaf of an edition of 400.

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[CAXTON, WILLIAM, printer]. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. Canterbury Tales. [Westminster 1477]. One leaf, pp. 49-50, containing lines 2538 to 2594 of the Knight's Tale. Folio, 241 x 167 mm. (9½ x 6 9/16 in.), gutter margin dampstained. Type 2: 135B. 29 lines. HC 4921; GW 6585; Proctor 9626; Goff C-431; De Ricci Caxton 22.23. Provenance: Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (sale, Sotheby's, part III, 9 May 1898, lot 4061, Quaritch); Roger Hawes West, bookplates. [Laid in pocket at end of:] DUFF, E. GORDON. William Caxton. Chicago: The Caxton Club 1905. 4to, 310 x 240mm. (12 1/8 x 9½ in.), original grey boards, red buckram spine, uncut, spine and corners worn, foxed, modern dark green morocco gilt slipcase by Max J. Adjarian. LIMITED EDITION, one of 148 copies thus with the original leaf of an edition of 400.