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Whittaker & Co., London, 1841. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Whittaker & Co., 1841. First edition, 1841. Collection of early 19th century translations of Chaucer into modern English by several noted authors. Dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, cover decoration in blind, cxlvii, [1, errata], 331, [1] pages, seven inches tall. Very good condition with a bump to lower edge, modest rubbing to the extremities, minor rub through to one lower corner & spine edges, fading to spine, good hinges, sound text block, lightly age-toned but clean pages with the armorial bookplate of G F Stanley Atkinson inside the front cover, small PO insc to fep dated 1947.