Geoffrey Chaucer; Emily Underdown — The Gateway to Chaucer

London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A delightful children's retelling of the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, complete with a particularly scarce dust wrapper. Written by Emily Underdown, an English novelist and writer known for popularising the works of Dante Alighieri, as well as for her children's works. Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.Complete with a scarce dust wrapper.A stamp to the front endpaper denotes this a file copy. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour as well as in-text drawings by Anne Anderson. Collated, complete.A smart illustrated children's edition of Chaucer with a very scarce dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart; boards are bright, extremities and the head and tail of the spine is bumped. A number in Tippex to the head of the spine. Dust wrapper has loss to the tail, extremities and the front board, and is generally a little chipped. Stamp to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the foredges having the odd mark. Very Good . Ill.: Anne Anderson. Very Good/Good Only.