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The Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society, 1966. Two-volume Folio Society edition with slipcase from 1966. Thr gray paper covering the cardboard slipcase has split at one side of bottom edge, also some scuffing to the corners. Some rubbing to ends and edges of the brown leather spine of volume 1, and to spine ends of volume 2 which also has a small scuff-mark about half-way up. Otherwise both good clean tight copies. Contains the Canterbury Tales (NOT in Middle English), rendered into modern English and with introduction by Nevill Coghill. Packaged weight would be about 1200g, so extra postage will be required from buyers outside the UK. 288pp (vol 1), 304pp (vol 2), b&w woodcut illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Whyte, Edna . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013084
- Title
- The Canterbury Tales
- Author
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Illustrator
- Whyte, Edna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Folio-Society, Canterbury-Tales-two-volumes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Poetry; Folio;
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Kirkwall, Orkney
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Folio
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