Chaucer

Second edition, third printing.  300pp.  In emerald cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. 9vo.  Cloth a little rubbed and faded at edges.  Presentation plate from the British Council, damaged, on front paste down. 

Stamp of the Freetown, Sierra Leone Training College for Teachers on the front paste down and lending sheet on rear paste down, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original matte dust jacket, a little soiled and spotted, lightly bumped and chipped at edges, a few small chips in centre of front panel, spine a little sunned. 

Chesterton’s fine and enduring study which places Geoffrey Chaucer in the context of his time and culture, looking not just at his writing and the Canterbury Tales in particular but also at Chaucer as an Englishman, as a religious man and a man of his times.