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The Prologue To The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Prologue
To The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
Plantin Press Los Angeles 1975
£250
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One of 115 copies, folio (390x265x12mm.), printed in Berthold Wolpe’s Pegasus types on hand made, deckle edged paper, 7 sections of 4 folds each, pp35, designed by Saul Marks, double spread title page with a large engraving by William Blake of the pilgrims, pen drawings by Mary Kuper in the text, each pilgrim’s name is printed in red in the foredge margin, against their entry, as new.
Saul and Lillian Marks started the Plantin Press in 1931. They produced fine work “some of the best and most classical printing in the United States” Cave, The Private Press