Duff (E. Gordon) William Caxton, one of 252 copies, leaf from Caxton's

Duff (E. Gordon) William Caxton, one of 252 copies, with a single leaf from the 1478 first edition of the Caxton printed Canterbury Tales loosely inserted, 26 collotype plates, Caxton leaf with a few very small stab-holes to inner margin and skilful marginal repairs, original cloth-backed grey-green boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut, cloth slip-case (rubbed), folio, Chicago, Printed for the Caxton Club at the Lakeside Press, 1905. ⁂ While containing a leaf from Caxton's Tales, this copy is not one of the 148 copies originally issued with the leaf in an envelope at the rear of the volume and a special limitation page. The leaf contains text from The Tale of Melibius. Provenance: H.L. Doolittle (book-label); Mark Louis Callister (bookplate). Duff (E. Gordon), William Caxton, one of 252 copies, with a single leaf from the 1478 first edition of the Caxton printed Canterbury Tales, loosely inserted, 26 collotype plates, Caxton leaf with a few very small stab-holes to inner margin and skilful marginal repairs, original cloth-backed grey-green boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut, cloth slip-case (rubbed), folio, Chicago, Printed for the Caxton Club at the Lakeside Press, 1905. ⁂ While containing a leaf from Caxton's Tales, this copy is not one of the 148 copies originally issued with the leaf in an envelope at the rear of the volume and a special limitation page. The leaf contains text from, The Tale of Melibius. Provenance: H.L. Doolittle (book-label); Mark Louis Callister (bookplate) print