The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are added an essay on his language and versification, and an introductory discourse: together with notes and a glossary

by edited Geoffrey Chaucer, and, Esq. F. R S.

$1,200 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1798. Second Edition. Full leather. This is the spectacularly handsome, finely bound, two-volume, second edition of Tyrwhitt's landmark Chaucer. This edition was produced posthumously, incorporating Tyrwhitt's own emendations and additions . As explained by the publisher, The Delegates of the Clarendon Press having been applied to, that the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, as published by the late Mr.

• Binding: Leather

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