The Riverside Chaucer. By Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by Larry D. Benson. Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin. Boston, 1987.

The third edition of The Riverside Chaucer, edited by Larry D. Benson, has been the primary Chaucerian textbook since its publication. It contains Chaucer’s complete works in Middle English as well as copious explanatory notes for students and scholars of the Father of English Poetry. It is a necessary textbook for most college English Literature curriculums. While new Chaucerians may cry, “Namoore of this!” while trudging through Chaucer’s middle English, they will always be grateful for this thorough, helpful textbook.

This third edition is in the original full cloth boards, fine. Text block near-fine, only scattered marginalia and former owner’s stamp to title page.

An essential edition for any Chaucerian. Fine hardcover version.