The Tale of Beryn, with a Prologue of the merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury (Early English Text Society, Extra Series, No. CV)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Limited, 1909 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Published for the Early English Text Society. Joint publisher: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press. Brown library buckram, gilt titles on spine, original purple front wrapper bound in, 10, [6], xii, 238 pp, 2 folding maps & 1 full-page map, notes, glossary, index. Boards & edges soiled, extremities rubbed, head of spine beginning to fray, first folding map has long tear along fold, usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamps. First 10 pages are a catalogue (dated February 1909) of previously published and upcoming volumes in the regular & extra series, reports on progress in editing volumes for 1907-9, appeals for money, etc. Main contents are reprinted from the plates of the Chaucer Society edition of 1887 (including a reprint of the original title page). Contents: errata for Original Series No. 31 (Myrc's Instructions for Parish Priests); foreword by Furnivall; the tale of Beryn; abstracts of the original French version, and of Persian, Indian, and Arabian versions of the tale upon which it was based. The Tale of Beryn is found in a single manuscript of Canterbury Tales; it is not believed to have been written by Chaucer, but nevertheless gives a picture of the activities of pilgrims in Canterbury in the 15th century. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G/No dj. 22½ X 15 cm.