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  "full": "\n**GEOFFREY CHAUCER. THE CANTERBURY TALES. 1929–1971. (ML 161)**  \n\n#### 181.1a. First printing (1929)  \n\n[within double rules] THE CANTERBURY | TALES | [rule] | BY | GEOFFREY CHAUCER | [rule] | EDITED BY THE | REV. WALTER W. SKEAT | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | LOUIS UNTERMEYER | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–vii [viii], 1–602 [603–608]. [1–19]16 [20]4  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A6; [iii] title; [iv] *Introduction Copyright,* 1929, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929; v–vii INTRODUCTION signed p. vii: Louis Untermeyer. | New York, 1929.; [viii] blank; 1–578 text; 579–582 NOTE ON THE | LANGUAGE AND METRE; 583–602 GLOSSARY; [603–606] ML list; [607–608] blank. (*Fall 1929*)  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1929*)  \n\n> Front flap:  
 For centuries commentators have sought a particular attribute by which Chaucer earned the title of “the father of English poetry.” Now the secret of his genius no longer lies merely in his incomparable narrative powers, nor in his technical mastery. His unfailing vitality and his myriad attachments to reality and imagination reveal the true scope of the man and the poet. The Modern Library edition of *The Canterbury Tales* makes his masterpiece available to scholar and general reader alike in its most authoritative version. (*Fall 1936*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial in brownish orange (54), gold and black on coated cream paper with black-and-white illustration of five mounted pilgrims and Canterbury Cathedral in distance; background in white ruled in gold, title in reverse against inset brownish orange panel at top, author in reverse highlighted in black against brownish orange panel at foot, other lettering in black. Designed by Paul Galdone, December 1937; unsigned. \n\n> Front flap as 181.1a. (*Spring 1938*)  \n\nSkeat edition originally published as part of *The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer* by Oxford University Press (6 vols., 1897). ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published September 1929. *WR* 26 October 1929. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1971/72.  \n\nUntermeyer received \\$50 for the introduction. Sales totaled 87,132 copies by spring 1958.  \n\n*The Canterbury Tales* ranked high in the 3rd quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period, May 1942–October 1943. It was not among the 100 best-selling titles in the regular ML during the 12-month period, November 1951–October 1952.  \n\n#### 181.1b. Title page reset (c. 1940)  \n\nTHE | CANTERBURY | TALES | *by* GEOFFREY CHAUCER | *edited by* REV. WALTER W. SKEAT | *introduction by* LOUIS UNTERMEYER | [torchbearer D1 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 181.1a. Contents as 181.1a except: [ii] blank; [iv] INTRODUCTION COPYRIGHT, 1929, | BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [603–608] ML list. (*Spring 1945*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Enlarged version of 181.1a jacket. Front flap as 181.1a. (*Spring 1945*)  \n\n#### 181.2. Text reset (1946)  \n\nGEOFFREY CHAUCER | The | Canterbury | Tales | EDITED BY REV. WALTER W. SKEAT | INTRODUCTION BY LOUIS UNTERMEYER | [torchbearer E3] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPp. [*4*], 1–642 [643–652]. [1–19]16 [20]8 [21]16  \n\n[*1*] half title; [*2*] blank; [*3*] title; [*4*] INTRODUCTION COPYRIGHT, 1929, | BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; 1–4 Introduction signed p. 4: *Louis Untermeyer*; [5] fly title in gothic lettering; [6] blank; 7–614 text; 615–618 Note on the Language and Metre; 619–642 Glossary; [643–648] ML list; [649–650] ML Giants list; [651–652] blank. (*Fall 1946*) *Note:* The running title (THE | CANTER- | BURY | TALES) and chapter titles (THE | *Clerkes* | TALE) appear respectively in the outer margins of verso and recto pages, along with page numerals.  \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 181.2. [1]16 [2–9]32 [10]8 [11]32 [12]16. Contents as 181.2 except: [*4*] INTRODUCTION COPYRIGHT, 1929, 1937, | BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [651] American College Dictionary advertisement; [652] blank. (*Fall 1959*)  \n\n*Jacket:* As 181.1b except in dark reddish orange (38) instead of brownish orange. (*Fall 1946*) Front flap reset with last sentence revised: “. . . its most authoritative version, the famous Walter W. Skeat edition.” (*Fall 1959*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nChaucer, *Troilus and Cressida* (1940–1944) 327  \n\n",
  "id": "181",
  "year": "1929",
  "label": "GEOFFREY CHAUCER. THE CANTERBURY TALES. 1929–1971. (ML 161)",
  "author": "GEOFFREY CHAUCER",
  "title": "THE CANTERBURY TALES.",
  "date": "1929–1971.",
  "something": "ML 161",
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  "type": "book"
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