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The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume III The Canterbury Tales. From the Text of Professor Skeat.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First issued in this series in 1906. Original full brown grained leather, with embossed lettering and borders to the front cover and spine, gilt. Top edge gilt. Neat ink presentation on prelim. Near fine. Item #5374
#76 in The World's Classics. A variant binding. The list of the World's Classics at the back of the volume mentions an option, 'bound in Italian, thin boards, gilt designs' at 5s, making them more expensive than the 'Sultan-red' limp leather variant.
Price: £15.00
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