Tales From Chaucer

London: The Medici Society, 1930. First edition of Eleanor Farjeon's modern adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, elaborately illustrated with full… Read more about this item

Horace Marshall And Son, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 1905. No Edition Remarks. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Marion Thomson. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying… Read more about this item

NY: Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, (1947) Book. Fine. Hardcover. Retold for young people by Charles Clowden Clarke. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. 182 pages, pictorial cloth. Illustrated with miniatures. FINE in spine-faded & moderately worn slipcase..

The Heritage Press, 1947. Cloth. Good. Szyk, Arthur. Larger sturdy book, stunning color-illustrated covers with medieval themes, a white discoloration at front bottom left, 182 glossy pages with beautiful color-illustrations of main characters for each tale. Text in prose, not poetry. In badly worn and torn slipcase with stickers lightly browned on both wide sides. Good book, Poor… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, London, 1967.. 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 239pp. colour illus by Majorie Walters. very good. / very good d/w. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.