The Lansdowne Ms Of Chaucer S Canterbury Tales

Includes: Drawings of the 23 tellers of the 24 Canterbury tales, copied from the Ellesmere ms. and cut on wood by Mr. W. H. Hooper.

Excerpt from The Lansdowne Ms. of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales The 4 'modern Instances - Peter the Cruel of Spain, Peter of Cyprus, Burusho Visconti of Milan, and Count Ugolino of Pisa are in their right places, after Zenobia, p. 268 sj; p. 557 Lamd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.