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

634 pp. 8vo. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles & 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.