The Flower and the Leaf CHAUCER Geoffrey 1340?-1400 Publisher: Edward Arnold & Samuel Buckley & Co Publish Year: 1902 Publish Place: 37 Bedford Street, Strand, England; and 100 William Street, New York Illustrator: HARWOOD Edith Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 008437 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Near Fine Size: Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: 1st Edition Inscription: Unknown £1,950 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information One of 165 copies on the original blind-stamped vellum (Soul is Form), gilt title to spine. Internally, hand coloured frontis, 45 pp, [1] limitation, 3 illustrations (full page) & 82 initials designed & hand-coloured by Edith Harwood 1 B&W at limitation, light spotting to tissue-guards loosely inserted between leaves only, small amount of natural mottling to upper vellum cover, printed at the Essex House Press of Chipping Campden. (190*123 mm) (Ransom p266; Tomkinson p73; Franklin p199). Number six in the Essex House Press's Great Poems Series, described by Colin Franklin as 'The most skillful and original of them all, a charming small work of art...' (The Private Presses p77). The Flower and the Leaf is not just a text but a luxury, handcrafted book, presenting a medieval allegory about enduring virtue versus fleeting beauty, produced in a style inspired by medieval manuscripts and the Arts and Crafts movement.
