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To which are added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Together with Notes and a Glossary, By Thomas Tyrwhitt. Frontis. 2 vols. thick 4to, half 19th century olive green leather over marbled boards (lightly rubbed); marbled end-papers and edges. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1798. Second Edition. Lowndes I, p. 427.

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.