The Poetical Works. CHAUCER (Geoffrey). ALDINE POETS 47-52.

Engraved frontispiece portrait.

Six volumes. 8vo. [177 x 110 x 165 mm]. Bound in the original diaper grain blue cloth, the spines with printed paper labels, plain endleaves, untrimmed and partly unopened edges. (Spines faded and labels browned and chipped).
London: [printed by C. Whittingham for] William Pickering, 1852 [1854]

Printed in an edition of 750 copies. This is the Second Issue - dated 1852 but printed for the Assigns of Pickering's Estate, 10th May 1854. JP notes that it is scarce. Internally fine. Inscribed in vol.1: "Edward Strachey from Maribella, Christmas 1858". Bought from Claude Cox in 2003.

Stock no. ebc8862