The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Modernized

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1841 First Edition. 331pp. Spine titled & decorated in gilt boards blind stamped. Corners bumped and rubbed. In original untouched condition with the ticket of Victorian binders Westleys & Clark on the rear paste down. End papers secure with a small bookseller ticket on front pastedown, previous owner s inscription on front free sheet. Pages clear of foxing or staining and in an excellent condition. Robert Horne commissioned leading poets to translate Chaucer, including the desperately ill Elizabeth Barret, later to marry Robert Browning, Wordsworth contributed three of his poems and stanzas from Troilus and Cressida . To read the trials and troubles of Horne in producing this book, Karen Hodder in The Book Collector 2002, Vol 51, no 2 gives a full account. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1679825749637

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