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Preston, Lancashire, England, September 1945. 260 x 218 mm. (10 1/4 x 8 1/2"). [9] leaves (illumination on rectos only). VERY ATTRACTIVE PRUSSIAN BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY SLINN (stamp-signed in gilt on upper cover), expertly rebacked to style, upper cover with central panel containing two red morocco onlays with gilt lettering over green morocco onlays with gilt vines and flowers, the center with a burgundy only containing the initials "EGS," all this surrounded by a thick frame of dark blue morocco with gilt vines, each corner with a square of burgundy morocco with gilt quatrefoil and leaves, multiple gilt rules and decorative rolls, lower cover with a gilt medallion at the center decorated with flowers and leaves, a simple blind-tooled frame and gilt ruled border with foliate decoration, smooth spine with gilt head and tail, gilt-tooled turn-ins, muslin hinges (added later as reinforcement?). Housed in the original (soiled and frayed) blue cloth portfolio. Lettering primarily in…

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.