TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. Rendered into Modern Verse By George Philip Krapp

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 frameworks to each page in very light mustard, frontispiece from an early Italian engraving (circa 1500) in the British Museum, a second two-page titlepage made up of large elaborately historiated initials printed colours. 4to, publisher's armorially decorated gray boards backed in cream-white buckram lettered in black on the spines, in the scarce original glassine wrapper and the gray paper-covered slipcase armorially decorated and lettered on the back in black and red. xxi, 309, [1] pp. Exceptionally fine, pristine and as mint spotless and without flaw, even the glassine is in essentially perfect condition, wholly complete, still soft and fresh with with none of the brittleness or browning typical to old glassine. The slipcase and only the slipcase with a little wear to the paper along the bottom edge of the back panel and a small abrasion a bit above, otherwise it is solid, clean, and attractive.

Edizione: a beautiful production 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.<br> this edition of chaucer's troilus and cressida is identical in format to the limited editions club's edition of canterbury tales; which was also designed and printed for them by george w. jones. for this printing jone's utilized the fanfare press, printers specialising in finely produced limited editions.