THE CANTERBURY TALES. Rendered into Modern Verse By Frank Ernest Hill

2 volumes. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 1500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PRINTER, George W. Jones, hand-numbered and printed in the Linotype Granjon designed by him. Ruled framework to each page in very light red, frontispiece from the Frampton marble bust of Chaucer in the Guildhall Library reproduced in pencil by Dorothy Woollard and featuring Chaucer's signature reproduced from the only known example, which is in the Public Record Office, London, a second two-page titlepage made up of large elaborately historiated initials printed colours, each tale beginning with a large seven-line capital initial heavily decorated. 4tos, publisher's armorially decorated gray boards backed in cream-white buckram lettered in black on the spines, in the original gray paper-covered slipcase armorially decorated and lettered on the back in black and red. [i]-xxii, 330; [i-vi], 331-670 [2] pp. The volumes very fine, pristine and as new, spotless and without flaw, the slipcase very near fine with no splitting or any real wear to the edges or corners but a few small abrasions to the paper and a small slit on one board.

Edizione: a beautiful production of the canterbury tales for members of the limited editions club. signed by british printer and type designer george w. jones, who developed a considerable reputation as a fine printer at "the sign of the dolphin", which was next to dr. johnson's house in gough square. the typefaced he used for this production, granjon, was based on the garamond typeface that was used in a book printed by the parisian jean poupy in 1592.