The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Volume I by Geoffrey Chaucer (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1903. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Volume I. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Pott 8vo. Reprint? First published in this series in 1903 as stated on verso of title page. Original quarter vellum, gilt, with leather label to the spine. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Light spotting to edges. Near fine. #42 in The World's Classics. This superior binding variant sold for 4s, four times the price of the cloth issue. Contains the Minor Poems and The Romaunt of the Rose. The title page gives the publisher as Henry Frowde but makes no mention of Oxford University Press. Frowde was the publisher at OUP and bought the series from Grant Richards in 1905, two years after the date in this book. Uncommon.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. "A significant offering in the facsimile series is Cambridge Library MS GG. 4.27, a manuscript of the highest importance in the Chaucer tradition. Not only is it the most complete collection of Chaucer's poetical works, it is also among the earliest Chaucerian manuscripts giving every sign of having been copied from sound exemplars. This facsimile reproduction offers scholars the opportunity to study the text as a whole. Though the manuscript was at one time lavishly illuminated, it has been subject to mutilations; and sometime in the sixteenth century, many of the illuminations were removed. The third volume also includes The arkiament of Fowls, The Temple of Glass by John Lydgate, Colour Plates, Commentary, and Index of Contents. Set of three folio volumes, in various paginations. Hardcover, bound in original royal blue cloth with red title-labels stamped in gilt. In excellent condition. Bindings and hinges are intact and firm. Contents are crisp, clean, and bright. Previous owner's neat ink signasture to upper edge of front endpaper, otherwise no markings or signs of prior ownership. A beautiful set with hardly any wear.