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1946réf. feb357281946 First Russian Edition of The Canterbury Tales КентерберийÑкие раÑÑказы Goslitizdat hardcover
2009réf. feb633862009: First Iranian Perisan Edition of The Canterbury Tales 2 Vols حکایت های کنتربری Cheshmeh
1968réf. feb1258481968: First Mexican Edition of The Canterbury Tales Cuentos de Canterbury Porrúa
1934réf. 295547New York: Covici Friede 1934. hardcover. fine. Kent Rockwell. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. xvii 627pp. Tall thick 8vo beautifully rebound in 3/4 burgundy morocco morocco ornately gilt spine t.e.g. New York: Covici Friede 1934. A fine copy. Covici Friede unknown books
réf. 06637London: The Folio Society 2011. Golden Cockerel Reborn - A Monument of English Private Press Printing" No. 22 of 1250 Copies - The Folio Society Facsimile in Full Goatskin CHAUCER Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde. Edited by Arundell Del Re. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. London: The Folio Society 2011. "This Facsimile Edition." Limited to 1250 numbered copies this example no. 22. Folio 12 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 311 x 191 mm. xii 1-309 1 2 blank 1 limitation statement 1 blank pp. Illustrated throughout with Gill's celebrated wood engravings originally printed at the Golden Cockerel Press under the direction of Robert Gibbings. Printed in Germany by Memminger MedienCentrum on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper. Elegantly bound by G. Lachenmaier in full black goatskin over beveled boards covers decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower smooth spine gilt-lettered blue endpapers all edges gilt silk marker. With: The Golden Cockerel Press Troilus and Criseyde. Essays by Roderick Cave and Barry Windeatt. London: The Folio Society 2011. Folio 12 1/4 x 8 inches; 311 x 204 mm. 1-6 7-48 pp. Photogravure frontispiece and three additional photogravure illustrations. Quarter black cloth over blue boards front cover with printed paper label. Together housed in the original black cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. A mint as new set. A meticulous and highly successful facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press masterpiece of 1926-27 widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century English private press printing - this Folio Society edition faithfully reproduces the scale typography and visual rhythm of the original. Gill's wood engravings - at once austere lyrical and unmistakably modern - rank among his finest book illustrations perfectly complementing the courtly intensity of Geoffrey Chaucer's great tragic romance. Printed on fine mould-made paper and bound in full goatskin the present facsimile succeeds not merely as a reproduction but as a convincing continuation of the Golden Cockerel aesthetic. The accompanying scholarly volume with essays by Cave and Windeatt provides important bibliographical and literary context further enhancing the set's appeal to collectors. London: The Folio Society, 2011 unknown books
1905réf. 56423Cambridge: University Press 1905-07. Limited Edition. Octavo 27cm. 7 vols in original quarter vellum with grey paper over boards printed vellum label on fronts; plain endpapers; photogravure facsimile plates. 3 vols with the bookplate of George Parker Winship. With Cambridge University Press order forms and publication announcements laid in. Straight copies with light shelf wear a few board corners reinforced with varnish occasional scattered foxing but largely clean: Very Good or better. 7 of a series of 12 facsimiles of scarce English incunabulae published by the Cambridge University Press in the early 1900s. Many of the originals were small pamphlets known only in one copy. 250 copies were printed of each volume of which 200 were for sale. This set from the library of George Parker Winship with his bookplate in three of the seven volumes. 1. CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Story of Queen Anelida and the False Arcite. 1905. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477." 28pp n.p. With the Winship bookplate. Mostly unopened. 2. The Book of Curtesye. 1905. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the Year 1477." 36pp. With the Winship bookplate. Mostly unopened. 3. BETSON Thomas. A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges of Holy Men. 1905. The original "Printed in Caxton's house by Wynken de Worde about 1500." 42pp; three illustrations and printer's device. 4. BURGH Benet trans. Parvus Cato Magnus Cato. 1906. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477." 76pp. Unopened. 5. LYDGATE John trans. The Churl and the Bird. 1906. The original "Printed by William Caxton about 1478." 28pp. Mostly unopened. With the Winship bookplate. 6. LYDGATE John trans. A Lytell Treatyse of the Horse the Sheep and the Ghoos. 1906. The original "Printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about 1499." 30pp; one illustration and printer's device. 7. The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost. 1907. The original "Printed at Westminster by Wynken de Worde about the year 1496." 46pp; two illustrations and printer's device. With a small auction description laid down on front pastedown. University Press unknown books
1913réf. 55786London: Philip Lee Warner 1913. Very good. Lavish limited Pre-Raphaelite edition of the Middle English masterpiece. This edition takes inspiration from the fine press movement which began in the 19th century as a reaction against the impersonal ugliness that often came to mass production. Many of the movement's practitioners such as William Morris looked back to pre-industrial arts for inspiration; W. Russell Flint a late practitioner in the companion artistic movement known as the Pre-Raphaelites so-called for their focus on art before the Renaissance painter Raphael. Flint's illustrations have the sinuousness of turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau with the rich primary color palette adapted from late medieval painting. Chaucer's late medieval work is an especially suitable subject for his Pre-Raphaelite sensibility. 3 quarto volumes 10.5'' x 8'' each. Original linen-backed blue paper boards printed paper spine labels. Top edges gilt other edges uncut. Illustrated by Flint with 36 tipped-in color plates. Limited to 500 copies on handmade Riccardi Paper. x 235 5; x 217 5; x 183 5 pages. Leather spine label bookplates to each volume. Some joints cracked but still firm. Some foxing to labels and boards heavier to vol.III boards. Offsetting to endpapers else interiors clean. Philip Lee Warner unknown books
1913réf. 297651London: Riccardi Press 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; gray cloth portfolio with titling in gilt to the cover with silk tie; with 36 mounted color plate by W. Russell Flint all with captioned tissue guards; the plates are a duplicate set produced for the original limited edition.~~With two bookplates for Willis Vickery an Ohio jurist and a serious collector of books; his library was sold in 1933. There is also a rubber stamp for the Hearst Memorial Library which we have not been able to access. Very Good binding. Riccardi Press unknown books
1900réf. 1019London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co 1900. Publishers Decorative Cloth Binding. Near Fine. Hugh Thomson. Near Fine condition beautifully bound in publishers ornate bright gilt cloth. Binding and hinges are excellent internally bright with light sporadic foxing profusely illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Book measures 8.5"x6.25". No publication date stated - circa 1900. A beautiful example in great condition. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co unknown
1905réf. 56423Cambridge: University Press 1905-07. Limited Edition. Octavo 27cm. 7 vols in original quarter vellum with grey paper over boards printed vellum label on fronts; plain endpapers; photogravure facsimile plates. 3 vols with the bookplate of George Parker Winship. With Cambridge University Press order forms and publication announcements laid in. Straight copies with light shelf wear a few board corners reinforced with varnish occasional scattered foxing but largely clean: Very Good or better. 7 of a series of 12 facsimiles of scarce English incunabulae published by the Cambridge University Press in the early 1900s. Many of the originals were small pamphlets known only in one copy. 250 copies were printed of each volume of which 200 were for sale. This set from the library of George Parker Winship with his bookplate in three of the seven volumes. 1. CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Story of Queen Anelida and the False Arcite. 1905. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477." 28pp n.p. With the Winship bookplate. Mostly unopened. 2. The Book of Curtesye. 1905. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the Year 1477." 36pp. With the Winship bookplate. Mostly unopened. 3. BETSON Thomas. A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges of Holy Men. 1905. The original "Printed in Caxton's house by Wynken de Worde about 1500." 42pp; three illustrations and printer's device. 4. BURGH Benet trans. Parvus Cato Magnus Cato. 1906. The original "Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477." 76pp. Unopened. 5. LYDGATE John trans. The Churl and the Bird. 1906. The original "Printed by William Caxton about 1478." 28pp. Mostly unopened. With the Winship bookplate. 6. LYDGATE John trans. A Lytell Treatyse of the Horse the Sheep and the Ghoos. 1906. The original "Printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about 1499." 30pp; one illustration and printer's device. 7. The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost. 1907. The original "Printed at Westminster by Wynken de Worde about the year 1496." 46pp; two illustrations and printer's device. With a small auction description laid down on front pastedown. University Press unknown
1934réf. 295547New York: Covici Friede 1934. hardcover. fine. Kent Rockwell. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. xvii 627pp. Tall thick 8vo beautifully rebound in 3/4 burgundy morocco morocco ornately gilt spine t.e.g. New York: Covici Friede 1934. A fine copy. Covici Friede unknown
2010réf. 20784London: The Folio Society 2010. Book. Illus. by Eric Gill. Near Fine. Hardcover. A facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1928-1931. Thick 4to. 768 pages. Dimensions 12 ½" x 7 ¾". Limited to 1980 numbered copies this is 456. Bound in Nigerian goatskin leather. Blocked in 24-carat gold. All edges gilt. Black satin ribbon marker. Essay by Peter Holliday included. Both volumes are in fine condition. The clamshell box is stretched and a bit frayed in two corners inside otherwise fine. A lovely production from the Folio Society. The Folio Society Hardcover
réf. 06637London: The Folio Society 2011. Golden Cockerel Reborn - A Monument of English Private Press Printing" No. 22 of 1250 Copies - The Folio Society Facsimile in Full Goatskin CHAUCER Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde. Edited by Arundell Del Re. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. London: The Folio Society 2011. "This Facsimile Edition." Limited to 1250 numbered copies this example no. 22. Folio 12 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 311 x 191 mm. xii 1-309 1 2 blank 1 limitation statement 1 blank pp. Illustrated throughout with Gill's celebrated wood engravings originally printed at the Golden Cockerel Press under the direction of Robert Gibbings. Printed in Germany by Memminger MedienCentrum on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper. Elegantly bound by G. Lachenmaier in full black goatskin over beveled boards covers decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower smooth spine gilt-lettered blue endpapers all edges gilt silk marker. With: The Golden Cockerel Press Troilus and Criseyde. Essays by Roderick Cave and Barry Windeatt. London: The Folio Society 2011. Folio 12 1/4 x 8 inches; 311 x 204 mm. 1-6 7-48 pp. Photogravure frontispiece and three additional photogravure illustrations. Quarter black cloth over blue boards front cover with printed paper label. Together housed in the original black cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. A mint as new set. A meticulous and highly successful facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press masterpiece of 1926-27 widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century English private press printing - this Folio Society edition faithfully reproduces the scale typography and visual rhythm of the original. Gill's wood engravings - at once austere lyrical and unmistakably modern - rank among his finest book illustrations perfectly complementing the courtly intensity of Geoffrey Chaucer's great tragic romance. Printed on fine mould-made paper and bound in full goatskin the present facsimile succeeds not merely as a reproduction but as a convincing continuation of the Golden Cockerel aesthetic. The accompanying scholarly volume with essays by Cave and Windeatt provides important bibliographical and literary context further enhancing the set's appeal to collectors. London: The Folio Society, 2011 unknown
1913réf. 55786London: Philip Lee Warner 1913. Very good. Lavish limited Pre-Raphaelite edition of the Middle English masterpiece. This edition takes inspiration from the fine press movement which began in the 19th century as a reaction against the impersonal ugliness that often came to mass production. Many of the movement's practitioners such as William Morris looked back to pre-industrial arts for inspiration; W. Russell Flint a late practitioner in the companion artistic movement known as the Pre-Raphaelites so-called for their focus on art before the Renaissance painter Raphael. Flint's illustrations have the sinuousness of turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau with the rich primary color palette adapted from late medieval painting. Chaucer's late medieval work is an especially suitable subject for his Pre-Raphaelite sensibility. 3 quarto volumes 10.5'' x 8'' each. Original linen-backed blue paper boards printed paper spine labels. Top edges gilt other edges uncut. Illustrated by Flint with 36 tipped-in color plates. Limited to 500 copies on handmade Riccardi Paper. x 235 5; x 217 5; x 183 5 pages. Leather spine label bookplates to each volume. Some joints cracked but still firm. Some foxing to labels and boards heavier to vol.III boards. Offsetting to endpapers else interiors clean. Philip Lee Warner unknown
1913réf. 297651London: Riccardi Press 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; gray cloth portfolio with titling in gilt to the cover with silk tie; with 36 mounted color plate by W. Russell Flint all with captioned tissue guards; the plates are a duplicate set produced for the original limited edition.~~With two bookplates for Willis Vickery an Ohio jurist and a serious collector of books; his library was sold in 1933. There is also a rubber stamp for the Hearst Memorial Library which we have not been able to access. Very Good binding. Riccardi Press unknown
1866réf. 012551London: Bell and Daldy 1866. Complete set. 250 copies printed before sterotyping for subscribers only. This being copy numbered 62. Books measure 19.5x13.5.cm. Bound in original publishers red cloth with paper title labels. Cloth rubbed wear loss on head and tail of spines some loss to paper title labels other minor wear or nicks. Generally bindings in good condition. Internally some hinge joints split a few gatherings working loose. Pages in good clean condition. A good set. C2. Cloth. Good Plus. Small 8 Vo. Bell and Daldy Hardcover
1863réf. 927E9London: Griffin Bohn & Co. 1863. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 7". Multiple inc. Jean-Antoine Watteau George Barrett Sr. Sir Thomas Lawrence J. M. W. Turner David Roberts Sir William Boxall. An uncommon edition of this discerning and richly illustrated anthology of poetry edited by Robert Bell. Uncommon.In full morocco binding with abundant gilt decoration and gilt fore edges. Marbled pastedown and marbled free endpaper at the front and rear of the work. Illustrated throughout with 66 monochrome vignettes replicating the work of several celebrated artists including J. M. W. Turner Jean-Antoine Watteau Thomas Stothard George Barrett Sr. and David Roberts. Collated complete. Printed by R. Clay Son and Taylor. Richard Clay I's son and partner in the printers Charles John Clay played an important part in the history of Cambridge University's printing and press. This is a discerning anthology of poetry which brings together the work of more than 150 poets with its golden leaves featuring excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Marriage of Patient Grissel' Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Song of the Pixies' John Donne's 'A Lecture upon Shadows' John Milton's 'L'Allegro' Lady Mary Wortley Montague's 'The Lover' three of William Shakespeare's sonnets Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'The Cloud' and Alfred Tennyson's 'Break O Sea'. Edited by Robert Bell. In decorated full morocco binding. Externally very smart with good colour to the binding on the boards barring a touch of browning to the spine; gilt decoration and edges bright. The odd wormhole to the front and rear boards. Slight rubbing to the front board and to the bottom edge. Slight bumping to the corners and to the head and tail of the spine. Slight loss of marbling on the front and rear free endpapers at the hinge. Hinges strained. Internally firmly with generally bright and clean pages. Some toning and spotting throughout First front free endpaper blind stamped with 'James Davies Bookseller Bath'. Richard Clay printer's mark on front blank. One minor closed tear to the first free rear endpaper not impacting text. Very Good Indeed Griffin, Bohn & Co. hardcover
1883réf. 1232941883. London: Bell 1883. 6 vols sm. 8vo full green crushed morocco extra red moire silk endpapers dentelles a fine set bound by Riviere with the backstrips uniformly faded as always to brown. § Second edition with alterations in the Text and Glossary. With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas. Issued in the Aldine Edition of the British Poets series. unknown books
1883réf. 1232941883. London: Bell 1883. 6 vols sm. 8vo full green crushed morocco extra red moire silk endpapers dentelles a fine set bound by Riviere with the backstrips uniformly faded as always to brown. § Second edition with alterations in the Text and Glossary. With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas. Issued in the Aldine Edition of the British Poets series. unknown
1978réf. 44502Guildford: Circle Press Publications 1978. Limited edition no. 1 of 250 copies initialled by King folio xii 57 3 pp. Vignette to title and 14 full page illustrations. Original blue cloth darker blue cloth slipcase with very minor wear. Accompanying the book is a card folder containing 18 of 20 loose prints each numbered "I A.P." Artist's Proof and titled and signed by King held in separate paper folders with a printed verse or "prose comment" by Roy Fisher Andrew Crozier Kevin Power or Keith Please all in excellent condition the card folder a little scuffed. The two missing prints are nos. XV and XVIII - The Wife of Bath's Horse and The Manciple. Originally produced for Editions Alecto in 1967 this second edition apparently appeared in 20 separate runs of 250 copies each with a different single print as well as 50 Artist's Proof copies. This copy would not appear to have been one of the latter despite being matched with a set of the separate prints. (Guildford): Circle Press Publications unknown
1950réf. feb640451950: First Hungarian Edition of The Canterbury Tales Canterbury mesék Franklin Tarsulat hardcover
réf. 06638London: The Folio Society 2010. One of the Great Books of the Twentieth Century" No. 8 of 1980 Copies - A Superb Folio Society Facsimile CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. London: The Folio Society 2010. "This Facsimile Edition." Limited to 1980 numbered copies this example no. 8. Folio 12 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 308 x 191 mm. 1-7 8-764 2 1 limitation statement 1 blank pp. Illustrated throughout with Gill's celebrated wood engravings originally printed at the Golden Cockerel Press under the direction of Robert Gibbings. Printed in Germany by Memminger MedienCentrum on Corolla Classic Watermark laid paper. Elegantly bound by G. Lachenmaier in full black goatskin boards front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower smooth spine gilt-lettered blue endpapers all edges gilt silk marker. With: The Golden Cockerel Press The Canterbury Tales. Decoration and the Mise en Page. Essay by Peter Holliday. London: The Folio Society 2010. Folio 12 1/4 x 8 inches; 311 x 204 mm. 1-6 7-48 pp. Frontispiece and ten illustrations in the text. Quarter black cloth over blue boards front cover with printed paper label. Together housed in the original black cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. With the original "Two Sample Pages" in black paper folder and the publisher's four-page prospectus. A mint as new set. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press Canterbury Tales 1929-31 widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century private press printing. This Folio Society production faithfully recreates the scale typography and mise-en-page of the original preserving the remarkable integration of text and image conceived by Gibbings and Gill. Gill's wood engravings - bold architectural and deeply expressive - rank among his most important book illustrations bringing a modern vitality to Geoffrey Chaucer's great pilgrimage narrative. The present edition printed on fine laid paper and bound in full goatskin succeeds not merely as a reproduction but as a worthy modern counterpart to the Golden Cockerel original. The accompanying essay volume by Holliday offers a detailed examination of the book's decoration and design further enhancing the set's bibliographical interest while the inclusion of the rarely preserved prospectus and sample leaves adds an additional layer of completeness and appeal. Examples of the original Golden Cockerel Press Canterbury Tales are now firmly in the realm of major private press collecting. This facsimile - particularly in such pristine condition and with its ancillary material intact - offers a compelling alternative: a museum-quality presentation of one of the defining illustrated books of the twentieth century at a fraction of the cost. London: The Folio Society, 2010 unknown books
réf. 06638London: The Folio Society 2010. One of the Great Books of the Twentieth Century" No. 8 of 1980 Copies - A Superb Folio Society Facsimile CHAUCER Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. London: The Folio Society 2010. "This Facsimile Edition." Limited to 1980 numbered copies this example no. 8. Folio 12 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 308 x 191 mm. 1-7 8-764 2 1 limitation statement 1 blank pp. Illustrated throughout with Gill's celebrated wood engravings originally printed at the Golden Cockerel Press under the direction of Robert Gibbings. Printed in Germany by Memminger MedienCentrum on Corolla Classic Watermark laid paper. Elegantly bound by G. Lachenmaier in full black goatskin boards front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt to a design by Neil Gower smooth spine gilt-lettered blue endpapers all edges gilt silk marker. With: The Golden Cockerel Press The Canterbury Tales. Decoration and the Mise en Page. Essay by Peter Holliday. London: The Folio Society 2010. Folio 12 1/4 x 8 inches; 311 x 204 mm. 1-6 7-48 pp. Frontispiece and ten illustrations in the text. Quarter black cloth over blue boards front cover with printed paper label. Together housed in the original black cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. With the original "Two Sample Pages" in black paper folder and the publisher's four-page prospectus. A mint as new set. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press Canterbury Tales 1929-31 widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century private press printing. This Folio Society production faithfully recreates the scale typography and mise-en-page of the original preserving the remarkable integration of text and image conceived by Gibbings and Gill. Gill's wood engravings - bold architectural and deeply expressive - rank among his most important book illustrations bringing a modern vitality to Geoffrey Chaucer's great pilgrimage narrative. The present edition printed on fine laid paper and bound in full goatskin succeeds not merely as a reproduction but as a worthy modern counterpart to the Golden Cockerel original. The accompanying essay volume by Holliday offers a detailed examination of the book's decoration and design further enhancing the set's bibliographical interest while the inclusion of the rarely preserved prospectus and sample leaves adds an additional layer of completeness and appeal. Examples of the original Golden Cockerel Press Canterbury Tales are now firmly in the realm of major private press collecting. This facsimile - particularly in such pristine condition and with its ancillary material intact - offers a compelling alternative: a museum-quality presentation of one of the defining illustrated books of the twentieth century at a fraction of the cost. London: The Folio Society, 2010 unknown
1930réf. 119841London: 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. The Medici Society hardcover
1886réf. 145246London: George Bell and Sons 1886. Finely bound Aldine edition of this collection of brilliant poetical works. Octavo six volumes bound in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within five raised gilt bands top edges gilt marbled endpapers decorated with botanical headpieces tailpieces and initials throughout. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities light toning to the text blocks and a bookplate to the front pastedown of Vol. VI. Edited by Richard Morris LLD with Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher and astronomer composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. George Bell and Sons hardcover
