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First edition. Two volumes. Quarto (27.5 mx 22.5cm).'The Life of Chaucer should by no means be neglected on account of its bulk, which perhaps the enthusiastic student of early English history would not have curtailed by a single page. This kind of desultory gossip is no ignoble treat for a long winter's evening'- Allibone. Vol. I, pp. xxvi,489,[3]; Vol. II, pp. viii,642,[32]. Vol. I without the half-title, not called for in Vol. II, the errata leaf bound at the rear of Vol. I. Two frontispieces & one plate, slightly foxed, the text clean & fresh. A handsome set in contemporary midnight-blue straight-grained morocco, gilt, aeg, with the binder's label of John Sewel, Preston. Rear board top corner slightly bumped Vol. II, and with some light rubbing. With the contemporary engraved armorial bookplates of Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart, Rufford Hall, Lancashire and also of Easton Neston. VG. [Hammond 38; CBEL II, 1250; Ebert 8644; Lowndes 905; Allibone 685; Brunet II, 1640]. Seller Inventory # 10935
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Title: Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Early English ...
Publisher: London: Printed by T. Davidson, White-Friars, For Richard Phillips, No.71, St. Paul's Church-Yard,
Publication Date: 1803
