THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER – F N ROBINSON – 2nd EDITION OXFORD PRESS

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This is a hardback book, 18cm by 26cm by 4cm.  Postage and packing is included in the price.

A bright, tidy copy. Blue cloth lightly worn with gilt lettering on spine. Used – Very Good. Hardback. Second edition. Hardback. xliv,1002pp. Edited by F. N. Robinson. The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer in the original Middle English with extensive endnotes. Second edition.

Chaucer died of unknown causes on 25 October 1400, although the only evidence for this date comes from the engraving on his tomb, which was erected more than 100 years after his death. There is some speculation that he was murdered by enemies of Richard II or even on the orders of his successor Henry IV, but the case is entirely circumstantial. Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, as was his right owing to his status as a tenant of the Abbey’s close. In 1556, his remains were transferred to a more ornate tomb, making him the first writer interred in the area now known as Poet’s Corner.

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