[HENDERSON & WILKINSON PLATES]

[CHAUCER, Geoffrey]
The Romaunt of the Rose
Rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer and illustrated by Keith Henderson & Norman Wilkinson of Four Oaks.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1911.

First trade edition (after the 1908 limited edition of 500 copies). Octavo (10-1/4 x 8 in.). Collates 140 pp.: [4], vi, 1-108, [2]; plus 20 ff. plates with guards. Pink-gold textured Asahi cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. Uncut edges slightly browned, small stains on bottom edges of some pages, a very good copy overall. Twenty color plates tipped onto hand-made paper with blind impressed panels and tissue guards with printed titles, the frontispiece and nine others by Keith Henderson and ten by Norman Wilkinson. Printed in double columns in Chaucer's medieval English (from the Globe edition) at the Ballantyne Press on laid paper. While this copy is from the "trade" edition, it remains relatively scarce, and the exquisite Henderson and Wilkinson plates are identical with those in the 1908 limited edition.

Price: $140
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