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[CHAUCER, Geoffrey]. The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized.

London. Whittaker & Co., 1841. First edition.
8vo. cxlvii, [1], 331pp, [1]. Original publisher's green morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp.
The sole edition of an anthology of early nineteenth century adaptations of Chaucer into modern English by several noted authors, including, inter alia, Wordsworth ('The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' and an 'Extract from Trolius and Cresida'), Thomas Powell ('The Flower and the Leaf'), and Elizabeth B. Barrett ('Queen Annelida and False Arcite').
£ 325.00 Antiquates Ref: 27709