Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Leather Bound Collector’s Edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Easton Press, 1978. Newer printing b
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards with strong gilt accents, clean gilt page blocks, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, no edge wear and strong corners. Silk moire paste downs are clean with no bookplate. Ribbon appears to be in original position. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright.
No dust jacket, as issued.
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
