viii, 377 pages, [6] unnumbered leaves of plates : 20 cm

"This story opens at Malvern Priory, where William Langland meets a young Chaucer and sets out to see the world. After some years we find him living in Cornhill with his wife and his little girl Calote. The vision of Piers Plowman links him to Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and the Peasant Rising. His daughter wins the heart of Richard II's squire, and goes through England with a message from the king. The whole course of the Peasant Rising is sketched, and at last the squire weds Calote and turns shepherd in the north."

Title vignette; frontispiece guard sheet present; copyright statement from title verso; manufacture statement from colophon

Verso of title-page: Published, October, 1903

Illustrations by Garth Jones

Publisher's green cloth stamped in gold, red, turquoise blue, and black with historiated initial L on cover in extended gold panel with Celtic vine decorations running full length of cover; stylized tree-form in gold with Celtic knots and vines on spine; titles stamped in gold in Gothic-style font with black outline; capital L with black infill accents, capital W with red infill accents. Binding signed with monogram initials "DD" (conjoined with second D reversed) by Decorative Designers (Firm)

Catalogued 20170929

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