THE PRIORESS TALE, SIRE THOPAS, THE MONKES TALE, THE CLERKES TALE, THE SQUIERES TALE FROM THE CANTERBURY TALES by WALTER W. (EDITOR) CHAUCER; SKEAT - 1923-01-01

New York, New York, U. S. A.: Modern Library, 1929. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No Edition Or Printing Stated. The Book Is Bound In Green Cloth With Gilt Lettering Within A Black Field On The Front And Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Green. The Book Has Minor Edge Wear And The Dye At The Top Edges Is Faded. The Front Hinge Is Cracked At The Title Page.

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. An Oxford University Press edition presenting three sections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. With extensive prefatory material including a Life of Chaucer, also with plentiful footnotes, glossary, endnotes and index of proper names. An entry in publisher's Clarendon Press Series. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with horizontal bands in black to covers, spine titling & decorations in gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with frequent penciled notations, inked prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and acidic stains to endpapers, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; lxii, 266 pages .

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. eighth edition, revised. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout, heavier foxing and tanning to free endpapers and text block edges. Minor dog-eared corners. Pencil inscriptions to free endpapers. Annotations to some pages. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners. Moderate crushing to spine ends causing fraying to cloth at spine ends and rub wear all over. Wear marks overall. Creasing to front board. Book has pronounced forward lean.

Oxford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bound in dark blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Hinges weak, taped on frontispiece. Illustrated by frontis.

Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1907. Ex-Library book. A new edition. Pocket-size original hardcover with bumped and lightly rubbed spine and leading corners. Edges of front board are slightly water damaged. A few light scratches on rear board. Age tanning to head of page block. Small waterstain on foot of page block. Library stamp on FEP. Second and rear inner paper hinges are split, but boards remain attached. Minor age spotting to pastedowns. Very neat pencil marginalia and underlining on some middle pages. Binding is tight, and text remains clear throughout. No dust jacket. T. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Ex-Library.

Oxford, England: Oxford at Clarendon Press, 1904. revised, new edition; olive green c w/gilt spione titles; owner's name; 282 clean, unmarked pages+2 pages ads, some notations and underlining. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12vo; 1 Pound.

London & New York: Oxford, 1895. Slender scholarly volume, giving the famous prologue in the original middle English ("Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote | The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote...") with extensive notes. Small hardcover, full burgundy cloth, gilt titling. General wear, corners rubbed & bumped; hinges tender; minor tanning to endsheets, ink (?) name, minor silverfishing; faint stain to page 15 - the first page of the Text. Text otherwise clean; 96 pages; index, notes, grammatical hints, pronunciation guide.. Revised Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4¾" by 6¾".

Hardcover. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover without DJ, scar on spinefrom tag removal, name written on first page.

NY: Modern Library, 1929. dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; 642 clean, unmarked pages/glossary+catalogue; (#161 in series, list to 309 on dj reverse); green Blumenthal binding w/gilt titles on black; Famous Skeat Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12vo.

Oxford.: Clarendon Press., 1929.. Blue cloth. Covers faded & lightly rubbed, very occasional marginalia in pencil, back endpapers have extensive notes in pencil: Good+.. 8vo. Frontis facsimile in black & white.. Edited by Walter W. Skeat.