The Canterbury Tales. Translated into Modern English by Nevill Coghill. Woodcuts by Edna Whyte. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
by CHAUCER Geoffrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Folio Society,, 1956. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers; oatmeal holland, brown cloth backs lettered in gilt, green tops, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at heads and tails of backstrips.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41271
- Title
- The Canterbury Tales. Translated into Modern English by Nevill Coghill. Woodcuts by Edna Whyte. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
- Author
- CHAUCER Geoffrey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Folio Society,
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- folio society, chaucer, geoffrey chaucer, canterbury tales, coghill, nevill coghill, edna whyte
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Island Books
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Thakeham, West Sussex
About Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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- Gilt
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- Dustwrapper
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