CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Rendered into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill, London: Limited Editions Club, 1934, 2 volumes, small 2°, number 371 of 1500 copies, signed by the printer George W. Jones, double-page floreated titles and floreated initials, hand-coloured by stencil, original hessian-backed printed boards -- François RABELAIS. Gargantua and Pantagruel. Newly translated into English by Jacques LeClerq with decorations by W.A. Dwiggins, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936, 5 volumes, 8°, number 162 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist, coloured titles, illustrations, mostly tinted, original sea-green cloth, pictorial paper labels, slipcase; and 34 other volumes published by the Limited Editions Club, many unillustrated, including Pluttarch's Works (8 volumes, 1941), the King James' Bible (5 volumes 1935) and Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (3 volumes, 1938), together with several Limited Editions Club prospectuses. (41)

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CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Rendered into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill, London: Limited Editions Club, 1934, 2 volumes, small 2°, number 371 of 1500 copies, signed by the printer George W. Jones, double-page floreated titles and floreated initials, hand-coloured by stencil, original hessian-backed printed boards -- François RABELAIS. Gargantua and Pantagruel. Newly translated into English by Jacques LeClerq with decorations by W.A. Dwiggins, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936, 5 volumes, 8°, number 162 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist, coloured titles, illustrations, mostly tinted, original sea-green cloth, pictorial paper labels, slipcase; and 34 other volumes published by the Limited Editions Club, many unillustrated, including Pluttarch's Works (8 volumes, 1941), the King James' Bible (5 volumes 1935) and Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (3 volumes, 1938), together with several Limited Editions Club prospectuses. (41)

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