The Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer.
£100.00
Publisher
At The Clarendon Press.
Place
Oxford
Date
[n.d., c. 1901]
Synopsis
Edited from numerous manuscripts by the rev. walter w. skeat.
Item Description
8vo. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. xxiv + 732 pp. + 149 + [1] pp. Glossarial Index and Glossary. Main text in double columns. Bound in tree calf; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated by elaborate gilt tooling, with contrasting red morocco title label, gilt. Inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Front hinge starting to crack, but otherwise a fine clean copy. Small decorative bookplate. Illustrated by frontispiece. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. One volume edition of The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, which had appeared in seven volumes, 1894-97. Edited by Walter William Skeat (1835-1912), leading philologist and scholar of the English Language was appointed Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge in 1878. He was also a pioneer of place name studies. A handsome edition in a fine tree calf binding.
[Stock No. 28085]
