Author: Geoffrey Chaucer; J. U. Nicolson; Gordon Hall Gerould
Title: Canterbury Tales
Description: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into modern English, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scare original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with the complete twenty-four of Rockwell's two-colour illustrations, originally drawn for a limited edition published in 1930 in America. Collated complete. A collection of twenty-four stories written in Middle English between 1387 and 1400. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, author, and civil servant who has been called the "father of English literature", or the "father of English poetry". Translated into modern English by John Urban Nicolson, an American poet and translator. With an introduction from Gordon Hall Gerould, an American philologist and folklorist of the United States. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Sunning to the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Near Fine . Ill.: Rockwell Kent. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Canterbury Tales Chaucer Nicolson Gerould Chaucer Rockwell Kent


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