UK: 1ST EDITION OF THE CANTERBURY TALES SELLS FOR RECORD PRICE
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A 15th century first edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, printed in 1477, sold for a record 4 (m) million 6-hundred twenty one thousand 5-hundred pounds (7.53 million US dollars) at Christie's in London on Wednesday night.
The book was estimated to fetch between 5-hundred thousand and 7-hundred thousand pounds.
Printed by the English printer William Caxton, and the last of the remaining 12 copies left in private hands, the book was bought by London dealers, Maggs Brothers.
The leather bound volume set a new price record for any printed book.
The previous record sale was for the Guttenberg Bible which sold for 5.3 (m) million dollars at Christie's in New York in 1987.
The books were part of a collection owned by Olive, Countess Fitzwilliam, and housed at Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, northern England. The collection was started in the 15th century by Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford.
The Chaucer was originally bought at an auction in 1776, for 6 pounds, by the first Earl Fitzwilliam and it has remained in his family library ever since.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
You will find other incidences of books having been in a family for a long period of time, but in this case to have all of them in such a stable collection and in a known collection that we can actually say when they came into the collection is very exciting.
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The same sale saw other examples of fine printing.
An edition of the first book printed in English, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye translated from French by Caxton and printed in either 1473 or 1474, sold at the auction for 771,500 pounds (1.23 million dollars).
Other works for sale included a very early guide to fishing.
The Canterbury Tales is considered one of the classic works of English literature.
A modern edition of the same book can be bought in any London bookstore for less than four pounds (six U-S dollars).
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Kelmscott Press Edition
A work described as 'perfect ... both in design and in the quality of the printing...the last and the most magnificent, the Kelmscott Chaucer' (Printing and the Mind of Man, p.223). The most ambitious and magnificent book of the Press, the Kelmscott Chaucer was four years in the making. Morris designed the watermark for the paper, which was copied from an Italian incunable in Morris's collection and made entirely of linen by Batchelor. It took several requests before Clarendon Press granted permission to use Skeat's new edition of Chaucer. Burne-Jones called the book 'a pocket cathedral - it is so full of design,' and 'the finest book ever printed; if W. M. had done nothing else it would be enough.'
Limited edition, one of 425 copies on paper from a total edition of 438, and one of approximately 50 copies commissioned in this binding.
Ornamental woodcut title, 14 large borders, 18 different frames round the illustrations, 26 initials designed by William Morris and 87 wood cut illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and engraved by W.H. Hooper. Shoulder and side titles printed in red and the whole printed in two columns in Chaucer type designed by William Morris.
This book is now sold. However, we do have various copies of Chaucer available in many different printings on our website:
Chaucer, The Works, Kelmscott Press, 1896. Peter Harrington Rare Books.
(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works, now newly imprinted. Hammersmith: printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896.
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Large folio (421 x 280 mm). Twentieth-century blue morocco over reverse bevelled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt panelled spine (gilt tooled on the raised bands with a fleur-de-lis motif), single-line gilt border on sides, three-line gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Housed in a morocco trimmed blue cloth, fleece-lined slipcase. Printed in black and red in Chaucer type, the titles of longer poems printed in Troy type. Double columns. With 87 woodcut illustrations after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith and cut by W. H. Hooper, woodcut title-page, 14 variously repeated woodcut borders, 18 variously repeated woodcut frames around illustrations, 27 nineteen-line woodcut initial words, numerous three-, six-, and ten-line woodcut initial letters, and woodcut printer’s device, all designed by William Morris, and cut by C. E. Keates, W. H. Hooper, and W. Spielmeyer. Spine lightly sunned, a few scuffs to slipcase, a fine copy.
One of 425 paper copies; there were 13 on vellum. “The Kelmscott Chaucer is not only the most important of the Kelmscott Press’s productions; it is also one of the great books of the world. Its splendour can hardly be matched among the books of the time” (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England). The paper is made entirely of linen by Batchelor, with a Morris-designed watermark copied from an Italian incunable in his own library. The text is from Skeat’s new edition of Chaucer, by permission of the Clarendon Press. The illustrations are by Burne-Jones, who spent every Sunday for almost three years on the drawings, which were then transferred to woodblocks by W. H. Hooper and R. Catterson-Smith under Burne-Jones’s close supervision. Burne-Jones called the book “a pocket cathedral … it is so full of design, and the finest book ever printed; if W. M. had done nothing else it would be enough.” The most ambitious and magnificent book of the Press, the Kelmscott Chaucer presented unusual problems as regards the binding. After a trial binding in the usual limp vellum was rejected for its lack of stability, the book was issued in either the standard Kelmscott binding of quarter holland boards or in full pigskin by the Doves Bindery. The quarter holland boards were essentially too flimsy for such a large book, so many copies were subsequently put into commissioned morocco bindings, such as this.
Chaucer, The Works, Kelmscott Press, 1896. Peter Harrington Rare Books.
The Handmaid's Tale – Everyman's Library Collection
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Here is Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale written in 1985 and published by Everyman's Library.
*ABOUT THE BOOK*
Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States government, the novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain individualism and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which comprises a series of connected stories (The Merchant's Tale, The Parson's Tale, etc.).
The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. The book has been adapted into a film (1990), an opera (2000), a TV series (2017), and other media. [1]
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The book is bound in a scarlet coloured cloth, smyth-sewn with acid-free cream wove neutral paper. The book is 350 pages long and it has a gold ribbon marker. The paper is thick and the text is set in Bembo.
*CONTENT*
The book has selected bibliography, chronology and historical notes from Atwood. It also contains a 12 pages long introduction by the author Valarie Martin.
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The Rude Story of English by Tom Howell and Illustrator Gabe Foreman
There are only two problems with the story of the English language: one, no hero. Two, not rude enough. In The Rude Story of English, recovering lexicographer Tom Howell swiftly remedies these and gives us a rousing account of our language -- without all the boring bits and with all the interesting parts kept in -- and reveals English's boisterous, at times obnoxious, character.
From a haphazard beginning in 449 AD, when a legendary, fearsome Germanic warrior named Hengest tripped and fell onto British shores, the real story of English has been rife with accident, physical comedy, phallic monuments, rude behaviour, dubious facts, and an alarming quantity of poetry written by lawyers.
Across vast distances of space and time, from the language's origins to its fast-approaching retirement, a moody and miraculously long-lived Hengest voyages to the pubs of Chaucer's London, aboard pirate ships in the north Atlantic, to plantations in Barbados, bookstores in Jamaica, the chilly inlet of Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland, a private men's club in Australia, and beyond.
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400th anniversary of publication of Don Quixote
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Mexico City, Mexico
1. Actors performing scenes from 'Don Quixote' at book fair
2. Children watching
3. Various of book fair with 'Don Quixote' books on display
4. Close-up 'Don Quixote' book
5. Spanish musician and songwriter Joaquin Sabina entering book fair
6. Sabina on discussion panel at 'Don Quixote' workshop
7. Wide shot of workshop session
8. Sabina reading excerpt from 'Don Quixote'
9. Various of actors performing scene from 'Don Quixote'
Bogota, Colombia
10. Woman looking at cartoons of Don Quixote
11. Various close-ups of cartoons of Don Quixote
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Maria Consuelo Araujo, Colombia's Minister of Culture:
400 years of Don Quixote, 50 years of Pedro Paramo and La Hojarasca in the end provide very happy excuses to read and reread it. Don Quixote still has resonance today, keeps updated, because his stories - although they come from his imagination - deal with very real human dilemmas that still exist in modern life and for all time.
13. Mural with Cervantes and contemporary writers
Buenos Aires, Argentina
14. Zoom out from statue of Don Quixote
15. Man looking at book store window
16. Tilt up on 400th anniversary edition of 'Don Quixote'
17. Close-up of woman's hand holding 'Don Quixote' book inside bookstore
18. Woman reading book
19. Zoom in from book store window to 'Don Quixote' book display
20. Close-up of Miguel Rep drawing illustration for 'Don Quixote'
21. Miguel Rep drawing
22. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Miguel Rep, Cartoonist:
Another element that makes this book so contemporary is the humour and the freedom in it. In my opinion the main theme of the book is not madness but freedom, and freedom is a universal human value. The characters are also very charismatic. So really there are a lot of special ingredients that make this perhaps the greatest novel of all time.
23. Drawing of Don Quixote by Miguel Rep
24. Newspaper showing Rep's drawing for Don Quixote
25. Display of books including Don Quixote
26. Women looking at books at book stand
DON QUIXOTE CELEBRATIONS
Latin America celebrated this weekend the 400th anniversary of the publication of the 17th century novel Don Quixote by author Miguel de Cervantes.
Cervantes' 1,000-page Don Quixote tells the adventures of windmill-tilting Don Quixote and his sidekick, Sancho Panza.
In the book, which first went on sale in 1605, Don Quixote sets out to right wrongs and protect the oppressed, but suffers from a kind of madness which makes him confuse windmills with oppressive giants.
The classic novel chronicling the adventures of the knight who dared to dream is the most widely published book in the world after the Bible.
In Mexico City's book fair this weekend, acclaimed Spanish musician and songwriter Joaquin Sabina delighted a crowded auditorium with his readings of passages of Don Quixote.
In Colombia, hundreds of people attended Bogotá's annual international book fair this weekend to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the novel.
With plays, debates, exhibitions, concerts and films, Colombia welcomed the 18th international book fair and joined in the worldwide celebrations of the anniversary of a literary work that has had a remarkable impact on writers, literature and people all over the world.
Colombia's culture minister Maria Consuelo Araujo attended the book fair and said the novel remains modern because it deals with universal human dilemmas which still exist today.
At the Buenos Aires book fair, one of the biggest in Latin America, artists and journalists read extracts of the book.
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