Tales from Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, Done Into English by Eleanor Farjeon by Chaucer; Farjeon, Eleanor - 1930

The Medici Society, London, 1933. 8.75" X 5.75" in burgundy cloth. Top of spine and corners just starting to fray; some white speckles and light colored stain the size of a quarter on front cover; Spine slightly faded; owner's dedication on flyleaf: GOOD to GOOD PLUS condition. 12 nice color plates by W. Russell Flint, R.A. Contents excellent, covers not so much. 245pp.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: The Medici Society, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 9" by 6". W. Russell Flint. The first edition of Eleanor Farjeon's prose rendition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in the publisher's original dust wrapper. The first edition thus of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper with pictorial onlay to front wrap.Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven colour plates by W. Russell Flint. Collated, complete.Eleanor Farjeon presents a prose translation in modern English of Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus, a collection of twenty-four tales told in Middle English, and largely presented in verse. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper significantly age toned to back strip, and somewhat age toned to head of front wrap. Tide marks to back strip. Light edgewear to back strip tail, and small closed tears to back strip head.… Read More

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 color plates after the drawings of William Russell Flint including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown. A collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400, The Canterbury Tales is is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's magnum opus. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people composing the characters throughout the tales was without precedent in English and the work still offers a variety of insights into customs and practices of the time.