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HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.
Flower and the Leaf by Chaucer, Geoffrey - 1902
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Flower and the Leaf
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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London and New York: Edward Arnold & Sameuel Buckley, 1902. 12mo, full vellum binding with blind-stamped rose and motto "Soul is Form". Printed on vellum with hand-illumination by the Essex House Press. The prettiest and most illustrated work in the Great Poems Series. Text was once attributed to Chaucer. One of 165 copies. Slightly darkened, spine gilt bright, in a simple slipcase. One half page and one double-page illustration and 85 historiated initials all hand-colored by Edith Harwood. Colin Franklin: "... the most skilfull and original (of the Series) a charming small work of art. ... Edith Harwood made and coloured the decorations which run happily through the pages... with people and flowers in greens and pinks, purple and brown".. Full Vellum.. Fine. Illus. by Edith Harwood. 12mo.
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Marilyn Braiterman Rare Books
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- Illustrator Edith Harwood
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Fine
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Edward Arnold & Sameuel Buckley
- Place of Publication London and New York
- Date Published 1902
- Keywords Essex House, Essex House Press, Essex House Great Poems Series, Vellum, Illumination, Ashbee, C.R. Ashbee, Guild of Handicrafts
- Size 12mo
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The Flower and the Leaf
by Geoffrey Chaucer (Creator)
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- Paperback
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- Used - Good
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- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9781290653633
- ISBN 10
- 1290653631
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HOUSTON, Texas, United States
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The Flower And The Leaf
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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- Used - Full limp vellum. Very good
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ardsley, New York, United States
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London: Essex House Press (Edward Arnold), 1902. leather_bound. Full limp vellum. Very good. 45 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Limited edition, copy 94 of 165 printed on vellum with front cover Arts & Crafts rose in blind, and entitled "Soul Is Form." Hand colored woodcut frontispiece, plus a central two panel plate, and elaborate colored initials throughout by Edith Harwood. Bookplate of Henry Walters Morrieson front cover pastedown. "The Essex House Press was then an Arts & Crafts press par excellence.....it reveals more of Art Nouveau in many of the books than one would have expected from so devoted a follower of Morris." CAVE: PRIVATE PRESS, p.125 noting Ashbee's work at Essex House. Slight cover soiling at top edges.
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Flower and the Leaf
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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(London: Essex House Press, 1902. Harwood, Edith. Octavo. 45pp. One of 165 copies, printed entirely on vellum. With hand-colored illustrations and initials by Edith Harwood, comprising one full-page and one double-page illustration, and eighty historiated initials. Alan Crawford describes Harwood's work for Essex House Press as harmonious and in keeping with the aesthetic of the time. Her images were "in a simple outline style of the sort found in contemporary children's books, which could be easily and tellingly enriched with colour." He also calls her work on the initials for this particular book one of the two "most successful" of the series. This is the sixth book of the "Great Poems" series from Essex House Press. In full vellum over boards, blind-stamped with the rose logo and the motto of the series, "Soul is Form." Faint soiling, else fine, housed in a stout cloth slipcase. This is the Abbey copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown and accession notes on the rear endleaf. (Crawford, p.…
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