[Flint, William Russell, Sir (1880-1969), illustrator]. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Riccardi Press for Philip Lee Warner at the Medici Society, 1913.

3 volumes, 4to (260 x 197 mm). 36 full color plates with tissue guards. Original limp vellum gilt, green silk ties, top edges gilt; publisher's blue printed dust jackets (toning, sunning to spines); publisher's slipcases (some splitting along edges, toning). With prospectuses and advertisements laid in.

LIMITED EDITION, number 129 of 500 copies on paper, SIGNED BY WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT. The Riccardi Press was founded in the early 1900s by poet Herbert Percy Horne (1864-1916) while he was living in Florence, Italy, with Horne himself designing the Riccardi typeface. The Riccardi edition of The Canterbury Tales remains one of the outfit's most lavish, with only their four-volume edition of Le Morte d'Arthur surpassing it in number of illustrations, with 48 to its credit. Sir William Russell Flint was a Scottish artist who began his career with the Illustrated London News. His illustrations for the Riccardi Press, like those executed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones for the Kelmscott Press, were heavily influenced by medieval artistic styles. Tomkinson, p. 149.

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[Flint, William Russell, Sir (1880-1969), illustrator]. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Riccardi Press for Philip Lee Warner at the Medici Society, 1913.

The Library of Stephen J. Farber

[Flint, William Russell, Sir (1880-1969), illustrator]. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Riccardi Press for Philip Lee Warner at the Medici Society, 1913.

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