1892 Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage

Description

Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

With a folding frontispiece. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of twenty-four stories mostly written in verse, although some are in prose, presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, author, and civil servant considered the "father of English literature". Epitomised by Sir William Moir Calder, a Scottish archaeologist, epigraphist, classicist, and academic. Bound by Relfe Brothers Limited, London. Suitable for rebinding.