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The Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: The Medici Society Ltd, 1929. Second Impression . Hardcover. Near Fine. Flint, W. Russell. Lovely edition from the Medici Society Ltd of London of Chaucer's complete tales, illustrated after drawings with 23 full-page, full-color prints & a Frontispiece by W. Russell Flint. In 637 pages, some uncut in rear. Orig. published by Riccardi Press in 3 vols in 1913, this is the Second Impression (1929) in this "Popular Edition" of a single volume issued in 1928 in this small crown quarto. Hardcover with deep red embossed cloth-over-boards & brilliant gilt lettering to spine that show no fading or rubbing. Condition is Near Fine--best we've ever seen! Extremely clean, with a few random smudges. Pages modestly tanned, a bit heavier around edges, but no foxing. Binding straight & tight, hinges intact.Former owner's name in pen & "Oxford 1933" inside front cover, along with an old sticker from Blackwell's of Oxford; no other writing/underlining/highlighting; not ex-lib or BCE. No DJ, as issued (never came with one). A handsome copy in exquisite condition! Please see our photos they show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand! Description & photos property of Gargoyle Books. Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); Weekends & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: book is too large & heavy for expedited domestic or any international shipping.
Synopsis
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the mistress (c. 1370) and third wife (1396) of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, whose first wife Blanche (d. 1368) is commemorated in Chaucer's ealrist major poem, The Book of the Duchess . From 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 1366 and 1378 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372-3 and 1378. The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s – The House of Fame , The Parliament of Fowls and a version of The Knight's Tale – and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde . In 1386 Chaucer was member of parliament for Kent, but in the same year he resigned his customs post, although in 1389 he was appointed Clerk of the King's Works (resigning in 1391). After finishing Troilus and his translation into English prose of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae , Chaucer started his Legend of Good Women . In the 1390s he worked on his most ambitious project, The Canterbury Tales , which remained unfinished at his death. In 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the precincts of Westminster Abbey but died in 1400 and was buried in the Abbey.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016888
- Title
- The Canterbury Tales
- Author
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Illustrator
- Flint, W. Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Impression
- Publisher
- The Medici Society Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- CANTERBURY TALES BAWDY MIDDLE AGES ENGLAND ENGLISH LITERATURE YOUNG ADULT YA ILLUSTRATED BRITISH VERSE HUMOR
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- Illustrated Books/Illustrators; Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories;
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