1979 The Canterbury Tales

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition thus, being a facsimile and transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript. Alongside variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript. 

In the publisher's original cloth binding.

With a coloured frontispiece.

A wonderful transcription of the 'The Canterbury Tales', a collection of twenty-four stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387-1400.

The lines are demonstrated to the opposite of its respective manuscript page. 

Edited by Paul G. Ruggiers, an American literary historian, and with introductions by Donald C. Baker, A. I. Doyle and M. B. Parkes.