Books

3 Volumes. 4to. pp. x, 235, [2 leaves]; x, 217, [2 leaves]; x, 183, [2 leaves]. 3 engraved titles. 36 mounted colour plates (incl. frontis.). uncut in original cloth-backed bds., top edge gilt (inner front hinges of Vols. I & II cracked). dws. (dw. spines faded & edges bit ragged). Limited to 500 copies on handmade Riccardi paper (+ 12 on vellum).

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.