Tales of the Canterbury pilgrims

Tales of the Canterbury pilgrims. Retold from Chaucer & others by F.J. Harvey Darton ; with introduction by F.J. Furnivall ; and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. ''Of the tales in this book, the following are taken from works not by Chaucer: 'Sir Gamelyn' (author unknown); 'The story of Cambuscan Bold,' Part II. (from Spenser), and Part IV. (from an eighteenth-century writer who attempted to complete this tale entirely); 'The chequer of the hoop' and 'Beryn' (author unknown); and 'The destruction of Thebes' (from Lydgate).''--p. xxi. Date from t.p. verso.