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1737 The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer
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Description
Illustrated, Leather Binding
Frontispiece is present.
A scarce and very sought after edition of 'The Canterbury Tales', edited by Thomas Morell, adapted into modern English.
Morell was unable to finish this edition of Chaucer, this volume contains only the prologue, and the 'Knight's Tale'. This work was Chaucer's magnum opus, an impressive collection of twenty-four stories, told in verse, running over seventeen-thousand lines.
Including a life of Geoffrey Chaucer, and a preface, in which Morell discusses the language and meter of Chaucer.
Thomas Morell was a printer, classical scholar, and librettist. He dedicated this volume to Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Collated, complete.
Two bookplates to the front paste down, for M. Cockin and J. O. Edwards.
Condition
In a rebacked calf binding, with renewed endpapers. Externally generally smart. Light rubbing and marks to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. A couple of light marks to the spine. Extremities are discoloured. Two bookplates to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots.
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