1870-1890 A Collection of Essays on the Works of Chaucer

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Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Six volumes. From the Chaucer Society. A collection of critical works and studies of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, author, and civil servant considered the "father of English literature". This set contains: Essays on Chaucer: His Words and Works, c1870. A collection of essays with translations on some of the author's most important and entertaining pieces, from a variety of literary scholars. Trial-Forewords to My "Parrallel-Text Edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems" for the Chaucer Society, 1880. Written by Frederick James Furnivall, an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary. Chaucer's "Boece" Englisht from Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiae", 1886. Edited by Richard Morris, an English philologist and priest of the Church of England. Chaucer's "Boece" Englisht from "Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii Philosophiae Consolationis Libri Quinque", 1886. Edited by Frederick James Furnivall. The Tale of Beryn, 1887. With two folding maps. Collated complete. Edited by Frederick James Furnivall and W. G. Stone, a British editor and author. John Lane's Continuation of Chaucer's "Squire's Tale", 1890. Edited by Frederick James Furnivall, with notes from William Alexander Clouston, a Scottish folklorist.