PATIENT GRISELDA.
Hardcover
1915 · London
by CHAUCER, GEOFFREY.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1915. Undated but circa 1915. Border designs in green and gilt. Top edge gilt. Front cover vignette in gilt. Cover remains bright. Illustrated with 8 full-page photogravures after Gilbert James, each with a tissue guard. The story is from "The Clerk's Tale" done into modern English with notes by Walter William Skeat. The illustrations are in black and white, quite charming. Pleasant typography with wide page margins. Text and plates are crisp. Some browning of endpapers. Inscription in pencil on front flyleaf, dated "Xmas 1915". 93pp.. Blue Cloth. Mild Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. (Inventory #: 001564)