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The workes of Geffray Chaucer : newlye printed, wyth dyuers workes whych were neuer in print before : as in the table more playnly doth appere   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Grafton, Richard, -1572? printer
Reynes, John, -1544, bookseller
Thynne, William, -1546, editor
Copley, Lionell, former owner
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose
Title
The workes of Geffray Chaucer : newlye printed, wyth dyuers workes whych were neuer in print before : as in the table more playnly doth appere
Publisher
[London] : Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes dwellynge at the sygne of saynte George in Pauls Church-yarde
Description
Edited by William Thynne
Mostly in verse
Includes a number of spurious works
Printer's name from STC
This is a variant of the other 1542 edition, which bears the imprint: "Prynted by Wyllyam Bonham."
Signatures: Áþ B-2Ýœ 2A-2T́œ
Title within woodcut, architectural border; initials
"The Caunterbury tales", "The romau[n]t of the rose" and "Boetius de consolatione philosophie" each have separate title pages; foliation and register are continuous
Leaves 371, 372 misnumbered ccclxxx, ccclxxxxii
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.401.67 bound in early calfskin panelled in blind. Spine rebacked, with red leather label. Armorial bookplate of Lionell Copley, Esq. Title page and final leaf with numerous early/contemporary inscriptions, including "This boke does be long unto John Abbotte [Allotte?], 1583." Printer's name inscribed along fore-edge. Acquired Jan., 1941.

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Language English
Publication date 1542
publication_date QS:P577,+1542-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: bostonpubliclibrary; americana
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Notes No copyright page found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1102359145
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Internet Archive identifier: workesofgeffrayc00chau
https://archive.org/download/workesofgeffrayc00chau/workesofgeffrayc00chau.pdf
  • IA contributor: Boston Public Library

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