Front matter
Reading edition
R. EMMET KENNEDY
Design & Decoration by Edward Larocque Tinker
DODD MEAD & COMPANY NEW YORK 1927
Copyright, 1927 By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y.
“At night was come into that hostelrie Wel nyne and twenty in a companye, Of sondry folk, by adventure i-falle In felawschipe.... Me thinketh it acordant to resoun, To telle yow alle the condicioun Of eche of hem, so as it seemed me, And which they weren, and of what degre.” —Prologue to Canterbury Tales.