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Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer

At The Clarendon Press

1798

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Finely bound set of Tyrwhitt's second edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

  • Sold as a set of 2.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (English).
  • Edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt (English).
  • The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To Which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, an introductory discourse, notes, and a glossary.
  • Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1798. 
  • Quarto.
  • Bound in contemporary full polished calf, spines rebacked with gilt tooling, paneled with morocco leather label and gilt titling.

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Some rubbing and scraping to boards.

Rear cover of volume one with uneven fading.

Marbled text block; wide margins.

Ownership pen marks to front pastedowns, ffeps, sfep of volume 1, title pages and frontispiece to volume 1.

Slight offsetting onto title page.

Language

English

Subject

Novels, English literature and history

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