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[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. MUSCATINE, Charles (1920-2010). The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer. An Account of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works From the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1963.
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[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. MUSCATINE, Charles (1920-2010). The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer. An Account of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works From the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1963.
Folio. Original leaf from the undated edition of Chaucer’s Works (ca 1551) laid in. Color facsimile frontispiece reproducing the Ellesmere Manuscript tipped in, numerous reproductions of leaves from various editions of Chaucer’s works, from the Caxton to the Kelmscott Chaucer, throughout. Original red gilt-stamped cloth.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 unnumbered copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. BCC 113.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher