The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer
1860. No Edition Remarks. 502 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound red leather with brown marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Front free endpaper and frontispiece loose. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Heavy splits and peeling to spine and corners. Minor scuffing to edges. Visible wear marks to boards.