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2nd Tyrwhitt edn, pp [viii](title, Advertisement, Contents vol 1), xxv (Preface, Appendix to Preface), 494; [iv] (title, contents vol 2), 650, [2] words not understood, errata; portrait frontis, cont. half calf over marbled boards, both vols sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, labels, blind and gilt decoration, 1981 school prize bookplate to vol 1 fep, owner's ink signature in vol 2, a little foxing to the prelims of vol 2 but generally a clean tight copy, with good margins.

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.