Quarter-bound in fine brown leatherette (1952) over cloth boards, gilt spine, Smyth-sewn. Part of the Great Books of the Western World series by Encyclopaedia Britannica, edited with guidance from the University of Chicago.
Written in Middle English in the late fourteenth century, Troilus and Cressida (a narrative poem) and The Canterbury Tales (a collection of pilgrim tales) are foundational works of English literature, comparable in their influence to Dante’s Divine Comedy in Italian literature.
