8vo. xxiv, 732, 149pp, [1]. With half-title and photographic reproduction of an early manuscript as frontispiece. Finely bound by Mudie in contemporary brown morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt initials 'B.E.C. ' to upper board, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Blanche E. Cheekley to front blank fly-leaf. Internally clean and crisp.

A Clarendon Press edition, finely bound by Mudie, of Chaucer's complete works, compiled and edited by noted English philologist Walter William Skeat, (1835- 1912). Principally known for his Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (1879-1882), Skeat's interest in etymology and philology led to his prolific translation and commentary on early English literature, including a subsequent edition of Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe, and the still-definitive edition of Ælfric's Lives of Saints.