SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS -- FROISSART, Jean (?1333-?1400). Cronycles, translated by John Bourchier, Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927-28. 8 volumes, 4° (240 x 172mm). Armorials hand-coloured, a few in the index volume uncoloured. Cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, uncut and partly unopened (front cover of vol.I, pt.I a little soiled, to small number stickers on rear cover of vol.I, pt.III lightly rubbed, spines a little bumped). NO.5 OF 350 COPIES.

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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS -- FROISSART, Jean (?1333-?1400). Cronycles, translated by John Bourchier, Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927-28. 8 volumes, 4° (240 x 172mm). Armorials hand-coloured, a few in the index volume uncoloured. Cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, uncut and partly unopened (front cover of vol.I, pt.I a little soiled, to small number stickers on rear cover of vol.I, pt.III lightly rubbed, spines a little bumped). NO.5 OF 350 COPIES.

CHAUCER, Geoffrey (?1340-1400). Works. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928-29. 8 volumes, 4° (283 x 197mm). Titles in red and black, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations and initials. Cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, uncut (lightly soiled and thumb-soiling). NO. 298 OF 375 COPIES.

With Edmund Spenser's Works (Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-31, NO.174 OF 375 COPIES). (24)
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