Chaucer's Canterbury tales / annotated and accented, with illustrations of English life in Chaucer's time, by John Saunders
1894, 1st edition. London : J.M. Dent. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned, torn, and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #397406
Physical description; xiv, 487 p. : front. (port.) plates ; 19 cm. Notes; "We have proposed...to make the whole course of the story clear by resolving inconvenient or difficult passages...into prose; but, at the same time, to allow the reader to be constantly refreshing himself from the 'well of English undefiled,' by leaving all the remainder, including the finest portions of the poetry, in its own nervous and beautiful language."-- Introd., p. 3. Subjects; The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer. English literature. English literature criticism. The Canterbury Tales criticism.
Price: €48.00