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London: George Routledge and sons, 1934. Very Good/very good. From the Clerks tale by Chaucer this has been done into modern English with a few notes by Walter William Skeat. Grey mottled boards with navy blue spine. Tight binding and clean pages.Lovely illustrations throughout,on card pages. First Edition AB64

George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No edition remarks. 93 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are heavily tanned with mild foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, frontispiece is detached but still present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to boards.

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1904-1907. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". Gilbert James; Alan Wright; Vernon Stokes; Thomas Maybank. Six beautifully illustrated literary works from Routledge's Photogravure Series. Six works in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front boards.Ink inscription to the front free end paper of 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', 'The Christmas Book of Carols and Songs' and 'Rosalynde'.A lovely collection of illustrated literary works from the Photogravure Series of George Routledge & Sons Ltd. Including favourites such as Edward Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Washington Irving's Rural England, this selection offers a delightful mixture of poetry and prose. This collection comprises: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald, with twelve photogravures by Gilbert James (1904, first edition)The Christmas Book of Carols and Songs edited by W. S. W. Anson, with twelve colour plates by… Read More