Chaucer, Geoffrey (2010) ‘The Canterbury Tales’, Folio Society limited edition with all extras

Geoffrey Chaucer (2010) ‘The Canterbury Tales‘, Folio Society limited edition. One of 1,980 numbered copies of which this is no. 523. Complete with the commentary volume and all extras (sample pages, prospectus, invitational letter). We also have the invoice showing that the book was originally sold for GBP 395.

Condition: fine with no issues whatsoever.

Production detials according to the publisher:

– Limited to 1,980 numbered copies, each copy numbered by hand on a special limitation page.

– Printed on felt-marked, laid paper, in a special shade matched to the original, made at the Favini mill near Venice.

– Endpapers of Merida Graphite from the Varona mill, Riva del Garda.

– Bound in Nigerian goatskin leather.

– Blocked in 24-carat gold with a design featuring Eric Gill s engravings around a blind-blocked frame.

– Gilding on all three book edges.

– Black satin ribbon marker.

– Presented in a buckram-bound solander box with gold blocking on the spine.

– Commentary essay by Peter Holliday quarter-bound in buckram and Merida Graphite.

– 768 pages, book size: 12 ½” x 7 ¾”.