The Language and Metre of Chaucer by Bernhard Ten Brink
1901. Second Edition Revised. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Revised by Freidrich Kluge and translated by M. Bentinck Smith. Binding remains firm. Couple of cracked gutters, with exposed netting. Front hinge are cracked. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Previous owner's sticker to front pastedown. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Fraying to cloth at spine ends and at hole to spine front joint. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened.