Books

Five volumes, complete. All plates present. Full blue leather binding by Roger de Coverley & Sons with raised bands, gilt lettering and spine decorations. No foxing or staining. Bookplate of Julius Charles Hare (b. 1795, d. 1855), British clergyman, author and book collector. (He owned about 12,000 volumes). Two other bookplates of former owneers (Maurice Powell and George Jackson Eder) also included. Trywhitt's work is considered the first scholarly edition of Chaucer.

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.