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CHAUCER GEOFFREY, By W. W. SKEATLivre Rare Book

THE PRIORESS'S TALE, AND OTHER TALES

CHAUCER TYRWHITT ThomasBiblio.com

Canterbury Tales

17751272181775. CHAUCER TYRWHITT Thomas editor. The Canterbury Tales. London: T. Payne 1775-78. Five volumes. Octavo early 19th-century full navy straight-grain morocco elaborately blind-tooled spines raised bands all edges gilt. $4800.First Tyrwhitt edition of Chaucers classic""the best-edited English Classic that ever has appeared""handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt. From the esteemed collection of Frederic Perkins with his engraved armorial bookplates.In preparing his groundbreaking edition Tyrwhitt consulted roughly 25 manuscripts of Chaucer's Tales. ""Tyrwhitt's edition has enjoyed the highest reputation and the estimation in which it has been held is in great part deserved and ought to be permanent"" Child. ""It was considered 'the best-edited English Classic that ever has appeared' and Professor Skeat in his edition 1894 speaks of it 'as a work of high literary value to which I am greatly indebted for many necessary notes.' As late as 1891 his notes and glossary were condensed and arranged under the text in the edition of Chaucer in Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books"" DNB. With an essay on Chaucer's language and versification as well as an introduction notes and a glossary volume published three years after the four volumes containing the Tales themselves all by Tyrwhitt. From the library of Frederic Perkins 1780-1860 noted as an important English literature collector in De Ricci English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts with his armorial bookplate. ""Perkins started collecting books about 1820 and left his library to his second son George who died in 1879. A portion chiefly musical was sold by auction in London 17 July 1861 and a second sale rich in Shakespeare quartos and folios took place on 10 July 1889"" University of Toronto Libraries.A beautifully bound set of this important edition with distinguished provenance in fine condition. hardcover

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