Author: Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill
Title: The Nun&Apos;S Priest&Apos;S Tale of Chaucer
Description: London, Allan and Richard Lane, 1950. Hardback. A very smart limited edition of this retelling of Chaucer's tale in modern English, with a Christmas card signed by the publisher. Limited to one thousand copies. With a brightly illustrated frontispiece and title page. Includes a Christmas card and letter signed by the publisher Allan Lane, a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935. "The Nun's Priest's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales composed in the 1390s, it is a beast fable and mock epic based on an incident in the Reynard cycle. Originally written by Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, author, and civil servant who has been called the "father of English literature". Here rendered into modern English by Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill, an Anglo-Irish literary scholar, known especially for his modern-English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .
Keywords: Nun's Priest's Chaucer Coghill Priest's Not Stated
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Title: The Nun&Apos;S Priest&Apos;S Tale of Chaucer
Description: London, Allan and Richard Lane, 1950. Hardback. A very smart limited edition of this retelling of Chaucer's tale in modern English, with a Christmas card signed by the publisher. Limited to one thousand copies. With a brightly illustrated frontispiece and title page. Includes a Christmas card and letter signed by the publisher Allan Lane, a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935. "The Nun's Priest's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales composed in the 1390s, it is a beast fable and mock epic based on an incident in the Reynard cycle. Originally written by Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, author, and civil servant who has been called the "father of English literature". Here rendered into modern English by Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill, an Anglo-Irish literary scholar, known especially for his modern-English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .
Keywords: Nun's Priest's Chaucer Coghill Priest's Not Stated
Price: GBP 55.00 = appr. US$ 78.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 952T23
- Book number: 952T23
See more books from our catalog: Classical Literature