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Troilus and Criseyde: A Love Poem in Five Books
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer (English, died in 1400)
Illustrated by: Eric Gill (English, 1882–1940)
Publisher: Literary Guild (American, founded in 1927)
Illustrated by: Eric Gill (English, 1882–1940)
Publisher: Literary Guild (American, founded in 1927)
1932
Place of Publication: New York, New York, USA
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with photomechanical relief prints
Dimensions
23.88 cm (9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gif of Mrs. Ashton Sanborn
Accession Number46.1128
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
New York: Literary Guild, 1932
Description(New York: Literary Guild, 1932) 23.8 cm; xviii pp. [1 f.] 309 pp.; publisher's original half gilt-stamped paper, dark blue cloth.
Published simultaneously with a trade edition from Random House. The illustrations are photomechanical reductions after wood engravings by Gill used in a limited edition of this title printed at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1927. The text is in a translation by George Philip Krapp.
Published simultaneously with a trade edition from Random House. The illustrations are photomechanical reductions after wood engravings by Gill used in a limited edition of this title printed at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1927. The text is in a translation by George Philip Krapp.
ProvenanceBy 1946, Mrs. Ashton Sanborn, Cambridge; 1946, gift of Mrs. Ashton Sanborn to the MFA. (Accession date: October 10, 1946)