I stumbled across a great Tumblr macrolit.Tumblr.com, seeing all of the wonderful and different editions of classics, and thought "Hey, I have some books is like to share".
My first is the Kelmscott Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It's not an original, it's a facsimile published by World Publishing. It's not priceless (to anyone but me), but it's a beautiful edition, drawings by Edward Burne-Jones and hand-lettered. It also keeps the Middle English text.
I've been muddling through the Riverside edition, and it's fascinating; the different spellings (not even always the same), that this was written during the great vowel shift (look it up) making the pronunciations different, me attempting on my own to try to learn it (thank you 2020). I've heard/read that Shakespeare wouldn't be able to understand someone speaking Middle English (true or not I'm never sure).
Below are a few pics for you to enjoy (or not).














