The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer; Thomas Tyrwhitt [ed.]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
$2,510.24$2,259.21
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1798. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 9". Not Stated. An exceptionally bright copy of the second Thomas Tyrwhitt edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's middle English Canterbury Tales. This second edition was published after Tyrwhitt's death, incorporating the changes from his own annotated copy of the first edition of 1775.With a portrait frontispiece to volume I.A beautiful late eighteenth century edition of Chaucer's magnum opus, a collection of twenty-four stories running over seventeen-thousand lines.ESTC reference number T75508.With the register: [5] a-s4, B-3Q4, 3R3; [2], B-4N4, 4O2. Collated, complete.With the armorial bookplate Francis Saxham Elwes Drury to the front pastedown of volume I. The great-grandson of a Harrow School headmaster, Elwes married an American heiress, the daughter of Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry.A handsome copy of Tyrwhitt's second edition of Chaucer's work. In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Volume II sympathetically rebacked, retaining original endpapers. Light rubbing to volume I joints. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown of volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good
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- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 843F17
- Title
- The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer
- Author
- Geoffrey Chaucer; Thomas Tyrwhitt [ed.]
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1798
- Size
- 11" by 9"
- Keywords
- Canterbury Tales chaucer Middle English Francis Saxham Elwes Drury chaucer
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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