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CHAUCER, Geoffrey (??-1400). The Canterbury Tales. The New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile (of Huntington Library MS EL 26 C 9). [Tokyo: Yushodo Co., Ltd, 1995.] Folio. Unpaginated. Photographic facsimile leaves heightened in gilt. Approximately 15 3/4 x 10 3/4”. Bound to style in publisher’s modern fifteenth-century-type binding of brown levant morocoo backstrip over oak boards, spine ruled in blind, seven raised bands. With publisher’s die-cut “chips” and other paper flaws throughout, as issued. Fine, virtually as new. With the original publisher’s quarter blue morocco clamshell case, wrapping cloth, and cardboard box with numbered label (minor wear to cardboard box). #100/100 OUT OF A TOTAL EDITION OF 250 OF THIS MAGNIFICENT FACSIMILE EDITION. Possibly the finest modern facsimile edition of any antiquarian book.