{"title":"Classic Fiction (pre-1900)","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"canterbury-tales-geoffrey-chaucer-rockwell-kent-illus-1934-garden-city-hc","title":"Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer – Rockwell Kent Illus. – 1934 Garden City HC","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"861\"\u003eA first Garden City edition of \u003cem data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"281\"\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003cstrong data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"326\"\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer\u003c\/strong\u003e, rendered into modern English by J. U. Nicolson and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Published by Garden City Books, Garden City, New York, in 1934. A very good copy, with clean, legible pages, a firm binding, and only light age-toning to the paper. The original green cloth boards are bright and well-preserved, with gilt lettering to the spine. Housed in the original illustrated dust jacket, showing expected edge wear, chipping, and surface loss consistent with age, but retaining strong colour and an arresting Rockwell Kent design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"1248\"\u003eThis edition presents Chaucer’s \u003cem data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"913\"\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e in accessible modern English, accompanied by Rockwell Kent’s bold and expressive woodcut-style illustrations. Kent’s work brings a distinctly twentieth-century visual language to Chaucer’s medieval narratives, bridging classical literature and modern book design in a way that has made this edition enduringly popular with collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1250\" data-end=\"1507\"\u003eThis Garden City illustrated edition is widely regarded as one of the most attractive and readable twentieth-century presentations of Chaucer’s work, valued for its combination of literary significance, illustrative quality, and honest period craftsmanship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47538502205492,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/57_e16628b0-55f3-49da-b31e-27bf5b23a886.jpg?v=1772373004"},{"product_id":"daniel-defoe-a-journal-of-the-plague-year-1835-thomas-tegg-and-son-edition","title":"Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year - 1835 Thomas Tegg and Son edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. This is the 1835 Thomas Tegg and Son edition, revised and illustrated with historical notes by Edward Wedlake Brayley. The volume includes a half-title, a facsimile reprint of the title page of the original 1722 edition, and xviii + 376 pages of text. It is illustrated with four engraved plates by George Cruikshank, the caricaturist and illustrator whose plates here include \"The Dead Cart,\" \"The Great Fire in Aldgate,\" \"Near Limehouse Wall,\" and \"London Cabin.\" The Cruikshank plates are all present and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is bound in the original publisher's cloth over boards with the spine in a half-leather binding, gilt lettered. The front pastedown carries the ink ownership inscription \"George Hancock, Hertford\" in a neat Victorian hand, an early provenance record consistent with the period of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe binding shows wear to the spine ends, corners. The boards are sound. The pages show tanning consistent with age. The Cruikshank plates are present. A solid copy with genuine character.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47894212050996,"sku":null,"price":240.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/56BE5B24-A0F4-4334-BF7A-72DFE0A5E579_1_105_c.jpg?v=1781175046"},{"product_id":"lever-charles-the-confessions-of-harry-lorrequer-with-illustrations-by-phiz","title":"LEVER, Charles - The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer with Illustrations by Phiz","description":"\u003cp\u003eOctavo. Period half calf over tree-calf pattern boards, spine in six gilt-ruled compartments with foliate tools, red morocco title label lettered in gilt. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece (\"Arrival of the Chargé d'Affaires\"), illustrated pictorial title page, and numerous full-page plates by \"Phiz\" (Hablot Knight Browne). pp. xv, 344.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn early Curry Dublin printing of the first book edition, with the Phiz illustrations intact who was simultaneously illustrating Dickens; Lever and Dickens were mutual admirers and Lever held several works in Dickens's personal library. Anthony Trollope famously praised Lever's novels as sounding exactly like his conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the armorial bookplate of Charles Kent, Vicar of Ludford to front pastedown. Moderate to heavy foxing and spotting on title page, frontispiece, and moderate plates; text pages mildly spotted but legible; binding sound and square with light rubbing to boards and spine extremities; gilt on label bright. 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