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Single Page Proof Of One Of The Most Attractive And Well-Known Page Images, The First Page Of The 1893 Version Of The Kelmscott Chaucer, Which Was Slightly Revised When Published In 1896. Printed On Laid Paper With Lines 1 �? Apart, No Watermark, And The Sheet Is 12 3/4" Wide, Rough Edges, By 16 5/8" Tall, Straight Cut With Lower Margin Slightly At An Angle; This Is About 1 �? Wider And 1/4? Shorter, But Otherwise Exactly Like The First Page Of The Bifolium Which Was Distributed To A Few Booksellers Circa 1893. Undamaged, But Two Horizontal Partial Folds, Not Creased, From Storage When Rolled.

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.