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The Ellesmere Chaucer reproduced in facsimile.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio 821 C397C v.1a v.1b v.2a v.2b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Standardized Title:
- Canterbury tales
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Manuscripts, English (Middle).
- California--San Marino.
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)--California--San Marino--Facsimiles.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts.
- Facsimiles.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, (some color), facsimile ; 43 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : University Press : Sherratt & Hughes, publishers to the Victoria University of Manchester ; New York : Agents for the U.S., Longmans, Green, 1911.
- Notes:
- Reproduced from the ms. of the Canterbury tales owned by F.C.G. Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
- Preface signed: Alix Egerton.
- With half-title.
- "Reproduced by W. Griggs & Sons Ltd., Peckham London S.E."--Verso of half-title.
- Local Notes:
- Library has copy no. 122.
- Some of original illuminations and ill. are hand colored.
- Library copy bound in 4 volumes.
- Contains:
- Ellesmere Chaucer.
- OCLC:
- 783500
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