LEFEVRE, Raoul. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. Translated by William Caxton, edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Hammersmith, 1892. 3 vols. bound in 2. Large 4o. 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. Original limp vellum, spines gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut (slight darkening to vol. I, light rubbing to vol. II). LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 sets 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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LEFEVRE, Raoul. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. Translated by William Caxton, edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Hammersmith, 1892. 3 vols. bound in 2. Large 4o. 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. Original limp vellum, spines gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut (slight darkening to vol. I, light rubbing to vol. II). LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 sets 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)