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London: Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, 1913. Three volumes complete - Volume One - x, 235pp, [5]; Volume Two - x, 217pp, [5] and Volume Three - x, 183pp, [5]. Original full vellum in DJ's, gilt title to spines and upper covers, t.e.g. DJ spines faded, with ink number (as issued?) to spines. Hint of foxing to fore-edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean. With thirty-six colour, full-page, tissue-guarded, tipped in illustrations by W. Russell Flint (twelve in each volume) as called for. Limited edition of five hundred copies, this being copy one hundred and eighty eight (as per the number on the spines of the DJ's). An attractive set. First Thus. Full Vellum. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Flint, W. Russell. 4to. Limited Edition.

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.

One way to determine if a copy of 'The Canterbury Tales' is a first edition is to look for William Caxton's distinctive typeface and woodcut illustrations in the printed book.