Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Date. (1887-1890). White and Allen. Empyrial Edition.

Introduced by Alfred W Pollard.
The Prologue - The Knight's Tale - The Man of Lawes Tale - The Prioresses Tale - The Clerke's Tale.

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.

Beautifully half bound in leather with marbled paper boards and endpapers. Light rubbing along edge, corners bumped. Interior bright and in beautiful shape. Gilt top edge. No date, but Allen and White as a publisher lasted only three years from 1887-1890.