Sold for:
$3,000
$3,000
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1905. Folio, original publisher's cloth and paper-covered boards. First edition, limited to 252 copies. Contains 25 plates with facsimiles of Caxton's types and wood-cuts. This copy one of 148 copies containing a leaf from an imperfect copy of the first edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, printed by Caxton in 1478. Bookplates of John Davies Cuyps.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2016-05-05
