Canterbury Tales EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 307 by Chaucer, Geoffrey - 1939

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1939. First Edition Twelfth Printing . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 307, Introduction by Arthur Burrell. Good green cloth. Gilt titles, and decoration. Slight wear, soiling, coffee spill top edge and cover. Fair soiled coffee spilled DJ, lacking spine tail piece and top corner of DJ. (1939), (1908), 12mo, xvii, 519pp. [1], Temple Press, 4 page Rhys essay. 16 page advertising catalogue of 954 volumes bound in dated January 1940. Book Code (N 364) DJ Code (Oj 412) NEW MYLAR COVER, 3/2//N Seymour. "In the Canterbury tales the pilgrimage device gave Chaucer an opportunity to bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of his day. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible an equally varied collection of tales, including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire. And all the time behind the tales, originating and interrupting them, interpenetrating and linking many of them together, is the great tale of the pilgrimage itself." RG4