A collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales are mostly written in verse, as part of a fictional storytelling contest held by a group of pilgrims travelling together from London to Canterbury Handsomely bound in full dark green leather lettered and decorated in gilt, four raised bands, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers.A VG first thus. In contemporay verse by J. U. Nicolson with the woodcuts of William Caxton.