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The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Poetry
Satire
Classic
English Literature
USD$750

Description

[London]: Riccardi Press, 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; gray cloth portfolio with titling in gilt to the cover, with silk tie; with 36 mounted color plate by W. Russell Flint, all with captioned tissue guards; the plates are a duplicate set produced for the original limited edition.~~With two bookplates for Willis Vickery, an Ohio jurist and a serious collector of books; his library was sold in 1933. There is also a rubber stamp for the Hearst Memorial Library which we have not been able to access. Very Good binding.

About The Canterbury Tales

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.