1986, ISBN: 04b98f2f91bf70bd7efafc4b3be407c9

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: GUILD PUBLISHING], THE CANTERBURY TALES, AN ILLUSTRATED EDITION, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, TRANSLATED INTO MODERN ENGLISH BY NEVILL COGHILL, FOREWARD MELVIN BR… mais…

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: GUILD PUBLISHING], THE CANTERBURY TALES, AN ILLUSTRATED EDITION, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, TRANSLATED INTO MODERN ENGLISH BY NEVILL COGHILL, FOREWARD MELVIN BRAGG, INTRODUCED JOHN WAIN. GUILD PUBLISHING AND BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES., Jacket, A large, colourfully illustrated, red cloth, hardback book, with gilt title impressions both on the front board and spine, comes with matching design dust jacket. Both the book and dust jacket are in really good condition. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. 288 pages all intact, all pages, text and gorgeous illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. This edition published 1986 by Book Club Associates by arrangement with Penguin Books Limited and Century Hutchinson Limited. Edited, designed and produced by Shuckburgh Reynolds Limited, London. Editor: Gila Falkus, Designer: David Fordham, Picture Research: Philippa Lewis, Typeset by SX Composing Limited, Rayleigh, Essex, Printed and Bound in Spain by Printer Industria Grafica, SA, Barcelona. Please note as this is a large heavy book overseas postage may increase from listed postage price depending on final destination. Ever since William Caxton printed his editions of "The Canterbury Tales" at the end of the fifteenth century, Chaucer's masterpiece has been a bestseller and it has now sold more copies than any other work in English literature except the Bible. This new edition takes the complete text of Nevill Coghill's long established translation and illustrates it from a wealth of medieval illuminations, manuscripts and woodcuts that have been carefully researched all over Europe and North America. The result is a magnificent new edition, both sumptuous and scholarly., Books<

1986, ISBN: 04b98f2f91bf70bd7efafc4b3be407c9

London England: Guild Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 1986. 1st Book Club Associated Edition. Decorative Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto Hardcover Hardcover. The… mais…

London England: Guild Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 1986. 1st Book Club Associated Edition. Decorative Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto Hardcover Hardcover. The Canterbury Tales. An Illustrated Edition. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. Foreword by Melvyn Bragg. Introduction by John Swain. In this new edition the text immeasurably enriched by the superb illustrations, which set the Tales in their late medieval context. Chaucer expected his readers to be familiar with a whole range of images, ideas and codes of behaviour, from the wheel of fortune and the gods of pagan mythology to the elaborate rituals dictated by the cult of courtly love and chivalry. His stories are full of allusions and symbols and for this reason it is possible to illustrate them from a variety of historical sources, and for the captions that accompany them to shed further light onm the text. The result is a magnificent new edition, both sumptous and scholarly. Illustrated. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) ., Guild Publishing, 1986, 3<

1986, ISBN: 04b98f2f91bf70bd7efafc4b3be407c9

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Guild Publishing, London England], LITERATURE THE CANTERBURY TALES, Jacket, Hardcover. The Canterbury Tales. An Illustrated Edition. Slightly sunned sp… mais…

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Guild Publishing, London England], LITERATURE THE CANTERBURY TALES, Jacket, Hardcover. The Canterbury Tales. An Illustrated Edition. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. Foreword by Melvyn Bragg. Introduction by John Swain. In this new edition the text immeasurably enriched by the superb illustrations, which set the Tales in their late medieval context. Chaucer expected his readers to be familiar with a whole range of images, ideas and codes of behaviour, from the wheel of fortune and the gods of pagan mythology to the elaborate rituals dictated by the cult of courtly love and chivalry. His stories are full of allusions and symbols and for this reason it is possible to illustrate them from a variety of historical sources, and for the captions that accompany them to shed further light onm the text. The result is a magnificent new edition, both sumptous and scholarly. Illustrated. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.), Books<

1986, ISBN: 04b98f2f91bf70bd7efafc4b3be407c9

[PU: London, Guild Publishing 1986], Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt title & spine and frontcover, pictorial colour inlay frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, small 4to: fronti… mais…

[PU: London, Guild Publishing 1986], Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt title & spine and frontcover, pictorial colour inlay frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, small 4to: frontispiece, 288pp., c. 225 colour and bl.& wh. plates & illustrations, list & sources illustrations. Very fine copy., NL, [SC: 8.50], leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Internationaler Versand<