The Canterbury tales.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1875
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3200996
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],xxxiv,586, 16 p., plates : ill. ; 18cm. Provenance: Inscribed on verso upper flyleaf: "Ashton Mosley [prob. Ashton Nicholas Every Mosley (b. 1792)] Burnaston House, Etwall, Derbyshire". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full maroon cloth, black, gilt and blind embossed on covers and spine. Gilt lettering direct on spine. Patterned endpapers. Some pages uncut.
Makers and roles
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730-1786) Edward Henry Corbould (London 1815 – London 1905)