The Canterbury tales / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; with wood engravings by Eric Gill.
Published / Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire : Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXIX [1929-1931]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This edition of the Canterbury Tales, in four columns, was printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire. By permission of the Oxford University Press the text follows their edition edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A. The first pages of volume I were set on the 6th of June, 1928 and the last pages of volume IV printed on the 29th of January, 1931. Compositors: F. Young and A. H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. 15 copies on vellum and 485 on paper have been printed."--Colophon of volume 4.
Contents:
I. The prologue. The knightes tale. The milleres tale. The reves tale. The cokes tale -- II. The man of lawes tale. The shipmannes tale. The prioresses tale. Sir Thopas. The tale of Melibeus. The monkes tale. The nonne prestes tale -- III. The phisiciens tale. The pardoners tale. Wife of Baths prologue. Tale of thw wyf of Bathe. The freres tale. The somnours tale. The clerkes tale. The marchantes tale -- IV. The squieres tale. The frankeleyns tale. The seconde nonnes tale. The chanouns yemannes tale. The maunciples tale. The persones tale.
Subject Terms:
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Poetry. | Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence. | Wood engravings -- 1929-1931.