Canterbury Tales, in Contemporary Verse: A Limited Edition (The Franklin Library's The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

634 pp. 8vo. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, orange ribbon marker bound in. Translated into modern English by J.U. Nicolson. Color reproduction of a page from the Ellesmere Canterbury Tales precedes text, other illustration taken for the Ellesmere manuscript in text.