The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To Which are Added an Essay on his Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse Together with Notes and a Glossary

 Geoffrey Chaucer; Thomas Tyrwhitt

Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, MDCCXCVIII, 1798

2nd Tyrwhitt ed. 2 volume set. Quarto, 27. 5 x 21 cm. Rebound in fine modern leather. Gilt stamped title and lettering to spines. All edges marbled.   Clean, unmarked pages. xxv, 494; [iv], 650, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait.  

The second edition was published after Tyrwhitt's death, incorporating the changes from his own annotated copy of the first edition of 1775.  Alston, III. 40.  ESTCT75508. Lowndes I, p. 427. 

From the library of the book collector, George Benson Weston (Harvard B.A. 1887, M.A. 1898).  Weston was a Romance Professor at Harvard.  Includes Weston's colored book plate with an Italian motto.