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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer;
Edited From Numerous Manuscripts By The Rev. Walter W. Skeat
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1920
8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (190 x 133 mm); pp xxi, 732 , 149 Glossarial Index; illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco over tan cloth, gilt fillets on boards, 5 raised bands, with gilt decoration and titles on spine; blue-grey endpapers, t.e.g. Spine somewhat sunned but interior clean and bright, with square and tight binding.
Stamped with "Hatchards J87 Piccadilly" to front end paper.
Widely considered the "father of English literature", Geoffrey Chaucer (1340s – 1400) is best known for The Canterbury Tales. He is seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English when the dominant literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher, an astronomer, a civil servant, diplomat, and member of Parliament. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey.
Condition: Near fine
- Dimensions:Height: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)Width: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1775
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Middletown, NY
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