London: The Folio Society, 2011. Hardcover. Number 459 of 1250 numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society. There were also 25 lettered copies that were not for sale. This folio sized work was originally printed b Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-27 using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This is an exquisite modern edition of this classic work by Chaucer that is beautifully illustrated with drawings by famed artist and illustrator Eric Gill. It is a facsimile edition, after the original of 1898. Bound in black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on front cover and spine, gilt edges, accompanied with a companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. With a companion volume that has a frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster (1885-1959), a self-styled photographer of men, taken in 1927. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum, for the Folio Society, on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. The companion volume here, Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde, was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem, published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations. " (from the imprint). Contains notes at rear. A beautiful production fine condition in a near fine solander box. 309 (2); 48 pages. Measures 7.75 x 12.25 inches. PRI/101826. Fine. More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1884. Paperback. SCARCE. 8vo. Beige paper wrappers with black title to front panel. Wear to wrappers includes one closed tear to top half of front wrapper and one closed tear to bottom half of rear wrapper as well as a few chips to the edges and spine and writing in pencil to top corner of front wrapper. Small chips to corners of text block. Pages are brittle. Pencil marking to footnote on one page. Else is clean and bright. 32 pages. English History. ENGHIS/011818. Very Good. More

Oxford: The Oxford Bibliographic Society, 2016. Hardcover. An extensive and detailed catalog of the manuscript collection at Queen's College in Oxford with many full page illustrations. The introduction gives a brief history of the library and its holdings. Fine in cream cloth with navy blue title to spine. Gentle bumping to corners. Illustrated throughout with color plates to rear. In navy blue dust jacket with white title to spine and front panels. Light wear to edges of jacket. Size: Quarto. 301 pages plus plates. BOB/101923. Fine / Fine. More

New York: Praeger, 1957. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated: Thirteen plates in colour and gold; ninety-six monochrome plates. Illuminated Manuscripts. ILL/107161. Fine / Fine. More

circa 1760. This is a set of leaves from an anthology or collection of poems by Sa'di, Amir Khusrao, Jami and others. Circa 1760, it is written on paper, in a fine hand, black nasta'liq script with occasional phrases in blue. Written diagonally within two columns, the text throughout is encased in double gold lines with a few exquisite blue and gold floral headings. The fragment also contains illuminated title in polychrome colors of blue gold and red with a final folio of perching birds amongst flower sprays. Framed. #22611/22702. Very Good. More

Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts / Foundation Wildenstein, 1987. Hardcover. Folio. with 328 illustrations, 70 in color. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front board. Dampstaining to front board and spine. Bow to front board. Dampstaining and cockling to pages along the top margins. Foxing to top fore-edge. Clean and bright overall with many illustrations. In beige dust jacket with black title to spine panel and red title to front panel. Dampstaining to dust jacket, discoloration to top front edge, and wear to edges. IN FRENCH. 511 pages. ILL/020623. Very Good / Very Good. More

1809. A leaf from a large Koran on polish ivory paper measuring 310 x 190 mm. or approximately 12 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, with twelve lines of black naskh script between gold rules, gold roundels between verses, sura headings in red on gold panels with polychrome floral spandrels. Red Persian interlinear translation, extensive marginal commentary within gold clouds, elsewhere in the form of Cypress trees and finial shapes. Framed. #6373. Fine. More

Spain: 1650. A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal, Spain, circa 1650, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Text is in a Spanish rounded gothic hand (Rotunda). Music is on a stave formed of five lines. There are six lines of music and verse. Verso: six lines of music and verse. Framed. #2525. Near Fine. More

A leaf from a medieval manuscript Bible: Paris, France, mid 13th century, in Latin, on vellum. There are fifty-five lines of double column text in microscopic-miniscule Gothic script. There are book headings, chapter numbers, Book of Tobias [Doway-Rheims] non existent in the King James, Chapters 1-2, Miniature of Tobit lying in bed with a swallow above. Verso: there are fifty-five lines of double column text in microscopic-miniscule Gothic script. Bible leaves from the 13th century are becoming rare. Framed. #2874. Fine. More