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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.
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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.
3 volumes in 2, 4o (290 x 210 mm). 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 volume 2. Original limp vellum, spines gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut and unopened (covers lightly soiled). LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies from 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)
3 volumes in 2, 4