In commemoration of its 75th anniversary, the Huntington Library of San Marino, California authorized Yushodo to publish a full-color, full-size facsimile of its greatest treasure and the most famous of all English literary manuscripts, the Ellesmere Chaucer.

The magnificent manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Huntington Library Ms. El 26 C 9) contains twenty-three portraits of the storytellers, including one of Chaucer himself. The seventy-one beautifully decorated pages having both gold and luminously colored borders give a special opulence to the presentation of the manuscript. The facsimile was printed in a full-color, high-definition process with gold inlay in Japan, on high quality, long-life paper imported from England with the binding done in the USA. The original camera work was done at the Huntington Library by the Huntington's principle photographer. This work is truly an international work bringing together the expertise of all participants to produce one magnificent facsimile.

The facsimile was published in a limited edition of 250 copies. The Deluxe version and the Quired (or unbound) version are still available. A complimentary copy of the companion volume, The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation, is also provided to purchasers of the facsimile. Further information can be sent upon request.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile (of Huntington Library Ms. El 26 C 9).

Edited by Daniel Woodward and Martin Stevens Tokyo: Yushodo Co., Ltd. and San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 1995. 399 x 284 mm. 480 pp.

• Deluxe Edition: Bound in quarter brown calf and oak boards, with blue quarter morocco clamshell case.

• Quired Edition: Unsewn leaves in blue quarter morocco clamshell case.

Both editions are accompanied by the companion volume: The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation. 363 pp. Illus. Clothbound.