Geoffrey Chaucer; J. U. Nicolson translation ; Illustrations by Rockwell Kent; introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. Canterbury Tales: rendered into modern English. , New York: Garden City Publishing, 1934.

Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Hard 4to. Very Good/Very Good. Lge 8vo De-luxe edition. Reinforced dust jacket, complete but slightly rubbed to edges. Numerous plates in two colours. xvi, 627 pages clean and tight. J. U. Nicolson has given us a new version, faithful to the original, retaining all its lusty flavor, but rendering it in the modern idiom. An accurate and exact translation, it is at the same time a model of fluent reading. ROCKWELL KENT has done the illustrations-twenty-five full pages as well as numerous decorations and end-sheets. They are the illustrations made for the original fifty-dollar limited edition, and so perfectly has he caught the spirit of Chaucer, that his brilliant drawings not only delight the artistic sense of the reader, but help to amplify and clarify the Tales themselves. The entire book has been prepared under the supervision of Professor Gordon H. Gerould of Princeton University. (Book ref. 127734)  £28.00

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