Author: (Jones, George W.) Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Title: Troilus and Cressida. Rendered Into Modern English Verse by George Philp Krapp. [Signed by the Book's Designer George W. Jones].
Description: London: The Limited Editions Club, 1939. 1939. - Small folio, 12 inches by 7-3/4 inches. Bound in light green boards featuring a coat of arms on the front board backed with a white buckram spine titled in black. In the original glassine dust wrapper and a light green slipcase titled in black on its spine. The slipcase is slightly soiled with a black crayon stain to the case's rear panel. (xxi) & 309 pages plus the colophon, illustrated with a black & white frontispiece, an extra double-page title with illuminated color initials, and five illuminated color initials at the chapter heads. Near fine in a very good slipcase.

The colophon reads: "Of this book fifteen hundred copies have been made for the Members of The Limited Editions Club; the book was printed for George W. Jones, from the Linotype Granjon designed by him, at The Fanfare Press, London. This copy is number 213." SIGNED by GEORGE W. JONES, the book's designer. Very good .

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