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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good. 1982. Hardcover.

London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. Volume 6 of 6. Bumping to top and bottom of spine. Bumps to edges of rear board. Board tips lightly worn and pressed. The pages are clean and tight throughout. This is an ex-library copy displaying two white dewey decimal numbers to spine, a sticker to inside cover and a stamp to FEP.. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Ex-Library.

Houghton Miffin Company, Boston, 1961. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Copy has been studied - plenty of underlining and notes to text. Binding is still solid. Copy has only 928 pages as someone felt the need to remove 20+ pages from back of book. Price adjusted for all issues - good read and study copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561001573. .

Oxford University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Previous owner's ink inscription. 1954 reprint. Acceptable due to significant underlining and or marginalia. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London: Macmillan and Company, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Globe edition. 771pp. Green cloth with spine stamped in gilt, topedge gilt. Last page with a tiny tear near spine not affecting text, spine ends slightly bumped with a short tears, small abrasion on spine, still very good.

BOSTON: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, 1961 NICE LOOKING BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, FORMER OWNERS NAME IN FRONT, SOME PEN MARKS AND YELLOW HIGHLIGHTS INSIDE. TIGHT, GLOSSARY AND PROPER NAMES IN THE BACK. EXPLANATORY NOTES. Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400). Chaucer's enduring fame reflects the range and quality of his poetry and prose, but also the accessibility of his midlands-based London English. His impact on the English language through the absorption of French words, ideas, and forms is considerable. Born into a family of prosperous vintners, Chaucer served as page then esquire to various aristocratic households, including that of Richard II. Chaucer's specific assignments included fighting in the Hundred Years War c.1359, undertaking trade and diplomatic missions to Italy and France, and acting as customs controller at the port of London and clerk of works at Westminster. THE CANTERBURY TALES, THE HOUSE OF FAME, SHORT POEMS AND MANY OTHER WRITINGS. GREAT LITERARY… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1957. Book. Very Good. hardback. 2nd Edition. hardback, small quarto, blue cloth lettered gilt to spine, lacking dust wrapper, the binding remains tight, the text clean and unmarked, printed on Bible paper, xliv + 1002 pp.

Oxford, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Oxford University Press 1957 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket.

London: OUP, 1947. Book. Good. Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Blue cloth - gilt titles., binding sound, pages clean. The pages are clean and good. Edited and introduction by Walter Skeat. Good condition..

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880. Second Edition, early printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good minus. Sold as a good reading copy. 3 vols. Octavo, 8" tall; vol. 1: cxxvi + 598 pages; vol. 2: 691 pages; vol. 3: 708 pages; brown cloth, gilt titles and top edge. Originally published by Little, Brown in 1855. A very good minus, generally clean, sturdy hard cover set with minor shelf wear overall, BUT the back strip cloth of all volumes is fraying at top and bottom edges; several hinges cracked but secure and binding sturdy, paper light to moderately yellowed. ).

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. Reprint . Blue Cloth. Fine/Poor DJ. 10 1/8" Tall. C. Xxiv, 732, + 149 Glossarial Index At End. A Fine Edition. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Fine, Unworn, And Unmarked, 1937 Of This Edition, First Published 1912. With The Scarce Dust Jacket, Worn, Chipped, And With Panels Detached, But Nearly Complete, Laid In Loosely.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970. Original cloth in tidy condition with a rubbed and chipped dust jacket, previous owners name. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Bell and Daldy, York Street, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Bell and Daldy, York Street, 1870. The Aldine Edition of The British Poets. For all six volumes: Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text.

London: George Bell & Sons 1891, 1893, Aldine edition. (Hardcover set) Very good. Red cloth over red cloth spine. Vol. 1 dated 1893 and the rest 1891. Frontispiece, in Vol.1. The spines are darkened and slightly cocked, and each volume has a previous owner's name and blindstamp. Edited by Richard Morris. Publisher series: Aldine Edition of the British Poets. (Sets, Poetry, Sets).

Black cloth boards with copper particulars to front board and spine. Cream paper dust jacket with text and design. All 7 dust jackets protected in mylar. Volumes contents are as follows: Vol. 1: Romaunt of the Rose and Minor Poems; 2: Boethius, Troilus; 3: House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, Astrolabe, and Sources of Canterbury Tales; 4: The Canterbury Tales (Text); 5: The Canterbury Tales (Notes); 6: Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes; 7: Chaucerian and Other Pieces. Small liquid stain to bottom of the front of volume 1 dj; abrasion with mark to bottom of back of volume 3 dj; very light stain to front of volume 4 dj. Light wear to dust jackets with light bumping to head and tail of spines (see images). 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Please expect extra postage as this is a large set.

London: The Folio Society. 2008. First edition in this binding. First edition in this binding. Bound in full terracotta buckram, blocked in gilt to the front panel and spine with a design by William Morris, lettered in gilt to the spine. In the maroon paper-covered card slipcase lettered in gilt to the front panel. Pale grey endpapers, top edge gilt (fore- and lower edges untrimmed), bound-in black ribbon bookmark. The binding design is by David Pearson and has been executed by the Sigloch Buchbinderei in Blaufelden, Germany. Printed by Cambridge University Press on Oxenford twin-wire laid paper made at the James Cropper Mill at Burneside in Cumbria. A fine copy, presenting as new, with just a few light surface marks to the slipcase. A beautifully produced facsimile of this landmark in the history of printing. This 2008 reprint of the 2002 limited edition Folio Society facsimile (described as an 'unlimited' edition, although now out of print) reproduces in extraordinary detail and quality… Read More

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1920. Finely bound example of Chaucer's complete works. Octavo, bound in full tree calf by Riviere & Son with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, supplied tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. A nice binding. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. 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.