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Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
627 pages. A Very Good deluxe first edition of the classic 1934 Rockwell Kent-illustrated Modern English version by John Urban Nicolson.
A little age-darkening, hinges just beginning to start, very light corner bumping, but binding otherwise tight and square, all pages clear and intact; no tears, marks, stamps, etc. Possible small water spot top page edge.
A very solid and and intact edition of a classic.
A little age-darkening, hinges just beginning to start, very light corner bumping, but binding otherwise tight and square, all pages clear and intact; no tears, marks, stamps, etc. Possible small water spot top page edge.
A very solid and and intact edition of a classic.
Synopsis
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the mistress (c. 1370) and third wife (1396) of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, whose first wife Blanche (d. 1368) is commemorated in Chaucer's ealrist major poem, The Book of the Duchess . From 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 1366 and 1378 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372-3 and 1378. The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s – The House of Fame , The Parliament of Fowls and a version of The Knight's Tale – and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde . In 1386 Chaucer was member of parliament for Kent, but in the same year he resigned his customs post, although in 1389 he was appointed Clerk of the King's Works (resigning in 1391). After finishing Troilus and his translation into English prose of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae , Chaucer started his Legend of Good Women . In the 1390s he worked on his most ambitious project, The Canterbury Tales , which remained unfinished at his death. In 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the precincts of Westminster Abbey but died in 1400 and was buried in the Abbey.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Setton Book Collection
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163
- Title
- Canterbury Tales
- Author
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Illustrator
- Rockwell Kent
- Format/Binding
- Tan textured cloth with embossed author and title, with gilt-framed decoration and black-lettered spine in tan label.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Rockwell Kent, Chaucer, Gordon Hall Gerould, John Urban Nicolson ,Middle English, English society, English church, English Middle Ages, professions and customs.
- Size
- 9 3/4" x 6 1/4"
Terms of Sale
Setton Book Collection
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Setton Book Collection
Biblio member since 2019
Neenah, Wisconsin
About Setton Book Collection
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