1930 Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done into Prose

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition thus of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper with pictorial onlay to front wrap.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven colour plates by W. Russell Flint. Collated, complete.

Eleanor Farjeon presents a prose translation in modern English of Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus, a collection of twenty-four tales told in Middle English, and largely presented in verse.