The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N.

Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all the source-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts. For the third edition,...

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Print adaptation: William Caxton, Thomas Godfray

Editors: William Thynne, Frederick Startridge Ellis, Rev. Walter William Skeat

Design: William Morris

Illustrations: Edward Burne-Jones

Engraving: William Harcourt Hooper

Cover design: Francis Sangorski

Desktop publishing: Lars Remer

Printing: Pumbo BV

The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer published by the Kelmscott Press is what the celebrated poet William Butler Yeats calls the most beautiful of all printed books w...