The Modern Reader's Chaucer by Chaucer, Geoffrey; Tatlock, MacKaye - 1938

This is a good book if you want a whole bunch of Warwick Goble art for not a lot of money. Goble was one of the titans of British illustration in the period of Rackham, Dulac, and Heath Robinson. His masterwork is the original 40-plate 1910 Macmillan edition of Green Willow, a copy of which I may still have for sale. This book has 32 of Goble's luminous full-color illustrations, but unlike Green Willow, it's been promiscuously reprinted with all 32 of its plates. This is a 1930s reprint. It does lack the gorgeous gilt cover of the original, a copy of which I've never seen in the wild. Tight, square, solid workmanlike binding in grey buckram with pictorial spine (non-gilt). No nonsense, book is thick as a brick. Purple topstain. This indestructible volume has little that could go wrong, and nothing has. Some slight discoloration on the binding, e.g. foxing, and to the (non-pictorial) endpapers. No detectable issues with the text block. All plates present and pristine. Owner's ex libris (William J. Hambly, in adulthood a writer of insurance treatises), and a date (May, 1943). No dust jacket; the dust jacket for this edition is ugly anyway.