The romaunt of the rose

Rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson. London : published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus, 1908. Quarto, finely bound by Bumpus of Oxford, full crushed levant morocco, upper and lower boards with gilt edge rule and elaborately floriated corner decorations with inlaid morocco and gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt decorate, edges very slightly rubbed, a small bump to fore edge, gilt rule and corner pieces to pastedowns, all edges gilt, pp. 103, twenty tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards (some offsetting), a small marginal stain to final few leaves, one of 500 numbered copies, a fine copy.

Chaucer’s Middle English translation of the French Le Roman de la Rose, a medieval poem on the theme of romantic love.