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Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, MDCCXCVIII, 1798. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Tyrwhitt ed. 2 volume set. Quarto, 27. 5 x 21 cm. Rebound in fine modern leather. Gilt stamped title and lettering to spines. All edges marbled. Clean, unmarked pages. xxv, 494; [iv], 650, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait. The second edition was published after Tyrwhitt's death, incorporating the changes from his own annotated copy of the first edition of 1775. Alston, III. 40. ESTCT75508. Lowndes I, p. 427. From the library of the book collector, George Benson Weston (Harvard B.A. 1887, M.A. 1898). Weston was a Romance Professor at Harvard. Includes Weston's colored book plate with an Italian motto.

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.