Chaucer

Chaucer, Geoffrey (d1400). Tyrwhitt, Thomas (essays) (1798) d 1Biblio.com

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer to Which are Added an Essay on his Language and Versification - 2nd edition 1798 - In need of rebinding

1798réf. 1798OssOxford: The Clarendon Press 1798. 2nd edition 1798. hardcover boards off. The Canterbury tales of Chaucer. To which are added an essay on his language and versification and an introductory discourse: together with notes and a glossary. By the late Thomas Tyrwhitt Esq. F.R.S. - Complete in 2 volumes Oxford: The Clarendon Press MDCCXCVIII 1798. Second edition; published posthumously incorporating the late editor's changes based on his annotations in his copy of the first edition. Two volumes; 11.25" x 8.75" xxv 494 pages; iv 650 pages 2 incl. Errata. Frontispiece portrait. Full leather binding Label: "Barrat Binder Oxford" on endpaper in vol. 1. Spines dried out and flaking front and back panels separated on both volumes. Book blocks very solid. Pages hardly browned with light foxing on most pages. See photos. -- -- From the libraries of In both volumes: Handwritten ownership inscription of "Maria Louisa Whyte Barrow Hill" on free endpaper Ex-Libris of "Hon. Wm Beauchamp Lygen" on pasted endpaper. See more info on both below. -- -- Handwritten ownership inscription of "Maria Louisa Whyte Barrow Hill" Maria Louisa Finch Simpson Whyte 1773 -1855 widow of the lawyer Mark Anthony Whyte died 1838 and lived at Barrow Hill near Rochester in Staffordshire. By her will of 12 January 1855 she bequeathed Barrow Hill and the pictures there to her niece Louisa Jane Finch Simpson widow of Henry Dawson died 1849. Mrs Dawson died in 1865; her son Captain Arthur Finch Dawson 1836–1928 inherited the house and the pictures. -- -- Ex-Libris of "Hon. Wm Beauchamp Lygen". William Lygon 7th Earl Beauchamp 1872-1938 styled Viscount Elmley until 1891 was a British Liberal politician. He was Governor of New South Wales between 1899 and 1901 a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith between 1905 and 1915 and leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords between 1924 and 1931. The Clarendon Press unknown

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