This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS THE FIRST DAY -: .-.: .-, -: AT THE TABARD; THE BEGINNING OF THE PILGRIMAGE LONG ago, when Richard II. was King, the highways of England must have been a far gayer and stranger sight than they are nowadays. The roads themselves were bad ones, little better than rough, muddy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS THE FIRST DAY -: .-.: .-, -: AT THE TABARD; THE BEGINNING OF THE PILGRIMAGE LONG ago, when Richard II. was King, the highways of England must have been a far gayer and stranger sight than they are nowadays. The roads themselves were bad ones, little better than rough, muddy lanes, and often very dangerous by reason of the robbers who lurked in the woods which were so widely spread over the land. But on these roads, bad as they were, traveled wayfarers who appear to us now no more than the people of legends, who seem never really to have lived except in songs and stories. Day after day men would pass up and down in strange garments and on errands so strange that, if we could look back and see them close at hand, we might fancy ourselves, so far as outside appearances went, well on the way to fairyland. Yet these were after all the ordinary Englishmen of those days, living and thinking really not very differently from ourselves, though we only know of them now through books. Imagine a highway of those times, and fancy the travelers going to and fro upon it. Here you might see a knight riding with his squire to some tournament, or maybe merely roving in search of adventures with other knight-errants like himself. Or round a bend in the road would appear some great lord, with a long train of armed men and servants on horseback; even the ladies would be riding, for carriages were rare and uncomfortable. Here, again, was a wandering minstrel, or a troop of jugglers, going to some castle near at hand, where they would be sure of a welcome, rich 'arid poor alike showing hospitality according to their mjran'sV . Perhaps a monk or a friar would pass on his way to beg offerings from anyone he could find, meeti
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Publisher:
Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers
Published:
1914
Alibris ID:
17282548398
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Seller's Description:
Kirk, M.L. Good. No Jacket. Book Scuffs, soils, edge wear, shaken spine with inner hinge cracking; smalls dampstain on inner lower spine corner and on ipper page edges; a readable copy. 310 pages.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914. First edition, 1914. Selections from the Canterbury Tales with eleven color plates plus color illustrated cover and endpapers by M. L. Kirk. Black cloth with color cover illustration, 310 pages. Covers edgeworn with a faded spine and rubbing to the corners and spine ends, a few small scuffs to the cover illustration, good hinges, sound text block with no loosened pages, all plates present and in very good condition with one having some light foxing at the inner margin and one having a tiny dampstain at the top edge, neither affecting the printed areas. The text is clean with a paper clip crimp and light soil to the half-title and preliminary blank, small upper margin dampstain to the last third of the book, not affecting the text, short gift inscription on the front free endpaper, personal bookplate on the front pastedown. Also includes a holiday greeting card and invitation to visit the Canterbury Road in Winchester, Massachusetts, laid in loosely at the front. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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