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[Shakespeare Head Press]. Original Holland-backed blue boards, flat cloth spine with printed paper labels. Eight volumes complete; Number 228 of 375 copies, 350 for sale. Quarto: (7 7/8" x 11 1/2"). Edited by by Alfred W. Polland, with headings and intitials drawn in color by Jocelyn V. Gaskin and with hand-colored woodcuts in the text by Hugh Chesterman, all based on those in the Ellesmere manuscript. Printed in Caslon Old Face type on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper by Bernard Newdigate. The set includes The Canterbury Tales (three volumes), Earlier Minor Poems, Boece de Consolacione Philosophie, Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, The Legende of Good Women, Later Minor Poems, Doubtful Minor Poems, A Treatise on the Astroblabe, abnd the Romaunt of the Rose. The Shakespeare Head Press Chaucer stands with the Kelmscott and Golden Cockerel editions as extraordinary examples of fine press printing. Showing just minimal spine toning and light wear, corners tight, internally clean and bright. Size: Quarto Size: Quarto.