THE WORKS OF OUR ANCIENT, LEARNED, & EXCELLENT ENGLISH POET, JEFFREY CHAUCER: As They Have Lately Been Compar'd With The Best Manscripts; And Several Things Added, Never Before In Print.To Which Is Adjoyn'd, The Story Of The Siege Of Thebes, By John Lidgate, Monk Of Bury. Together With The Life Of Chaucer, Shewing His Countrey, Parentage, Education, Marriage, Children, Revenues, Service, Reward, Friends, Books, Death. Also a Table, wherein the Old and Obscure Words in Chaucer are explained, and such Words (which are man) that either are, by Nature or Derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular Notes for the better understanding their Original

Author: CHAUCER, Jeffrey [Geoffrey]
Title: THE WORKS OF OUR ANCIENT, LEARNED, & EXCELLENT ENGLISH POET, JEFFREY CHAUCER: As They Have Lately Been Compar'd With The Best Manscripts; And Several Things Added, Never Before In Print.To Which Is Adjoyn'd, The Story Of The Siege Of Thebes, By John Lidgate, Monk Of Bury. Together With The Life Of Chaucer, Shewing His Countrey, Parentage, Education, Marriage, Children, Revenues, Service, Reward, Friends, Books, Death. Also a Table, wherein the Old and Obscure Words in Chaucer are explained, and such Words (which are man) that either are, by Nature or Derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular Notes for the better understanding their Original
Publication: London: Printed in the Year MDCLXXXVII (1687)
Edition: Final Speght Edition - the last to be printed in black letter, and the eighth collected edition overall

Description: Folio in fours; bound in 19th Century half brown morocco with cloth sides, spine panel with raised bands, gilt decorations and lettering. Pp. [i] - [xxxvi], 660, [24] pp. Engraved frontispiece ("The Progenie of Geoffrey Chaucer," after the frontispice engraved by John Speed for the 1598 edition), woodcut of Chaucer's arms dated 1569 at divisional title for the Works, small armorial woodcut in Speght's "Life". Black-letter text in two columns. Lacking four leaves: 02 - 03 (Pp 99-102) and Zz2 - Zz3 (Pp 355-358), Small bit of restoration to last two leaves. Light fraying to edge of frontispiece, ink name on title. Minor browning to the text. A sound, attractive, Very Good copy.

¶ The Collected Works of Geoffey Chaucer (1340? -1400). Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES was first published by Caxton in 1478 & 1483, and by Wyken de Worde in 1498; there were several 16th Century Editions (Pynson 1526, Godfray 1532, Petit 1551, Wight 1561). In 1598 the 6th Edition was issued by Adam Islip, Edited by Thomas Speght. Our copy is the 3rd Speght Edition, the 8th edition overall, and includes newly discovered endings to the Cook's Tale and to the Squire's Tale (22 lines in total). Pforzheimer 179.

Seller ID: 313478

Subject: Catalogue 58

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