[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. LEFEVRE, RAOUL. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. Translated by William Caxton, edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Hammersmith, 1892. Printed in Troy type (with the table of chapters and glossary in Chaucer type) in black and red, woodcut title-page and facing page with full woodcut page-border, numerous partial page-borders, and 8-line and smaller initial capitals, printer's device at end of vol. 2. 3 vols. in 2, large 4to, original limp vellum, spines gilt-lettered, silk ties, (5 of 12 reminiscence), uncut, covers light bowing; ; endpapers slightly wrinkled. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies of an edition of 305. Cockerell 8 ("This book... is the first book printed in Troy type, and the first in which Chaucer type appears"); Peterson A8. (2)

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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. LEFEVRE, RAOUL. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. Translated by William Caxton, edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Hammersmith, 1892. Printed in Troy type (with the table of chapters and glossary in Chaucer type) in black and red, woodcut title-page and facing page with full woodcut page-border, numerous partial page-borders, and 8-line and smaller initial capitals, printer's device at end of vol. 2. 3 vols. in 2, large 4to, original limp vellum, spines gilt-lettered, silk ties, (5 of 12 reminiscence), uncut, covers light bowing; ; endpapers slightly wrinkled. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies of an edition of 305. Cockerell 8 ("This book... is the first book printed in Troy type, and the first in which Chaucer type appears"); Peterson A8. (2)

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