Shelfmark
Ed.1.14
Author
Uniform title
[Works]
Title
The workes of our antient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions. 1 His portraiture and progenic shewed. 2 His life collected. 3 Arguments to euery booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two bookes of his, neuer before printed.
Varying form of title
Romaunt of the rose
Varying form of title
Canterbury tales
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, Anno 1598.
Physical description
[27], 384, [14] leaves, 1 leaf of plates : ill., port. ; Fo.
Language
Latin words.
Note
Editor's dedication signed: Tho. Speght.
Note
Includes "The siege of Thebes" by John Lydgate. Contains many works not by Chaucer.
Note
"The Canterbury tales", "The romaunt of the rose", and "The story of Thebes" have divisional titles; foliation and register are continuous.
Note
Last leaf is blank.
Note
Extensive mispagination (pp. 242-347).
Note
The plate has heading: The progenie of Geffrey Chaucer.
Note
A variant of the edition without Islip's name in the imprint.
Note
Imperfect: lacks errata leaf ("Faults escaped"), and initial blank leaf.
Note
Ms. notes on endpaper and in text.
Note
Letter (loose) from Roger Baskerville Mynors, dated 28 March 1961.
Citation/references note
ESTC S107209; STC (2nd ed.), 5078
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College with m.s. annotation: Presented by R.B. Mynors Esq. 28.iii.1961.
Provenance
Letter (loose) from R.B. Mynors presenting the book to College Library.
Provenance
Ms. inscription: Roger Baskerville Mynors from RPL [identified as Robert Longden in Mynors' letter].
Provenance
Ms. signature on t.p.: Cha. Unwin.
Binding
Late 16th/early 17th century blind- and gold-tooled brown calf.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Lydgate, John, 1370? - 1451? Seige of Thebes.
Added entry--name
Islip, Adam, ? - d. 1639 Printer.
Added entry--name
Norton, Bonham, 1565 - 1635 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Mynors, R.A.B., 1903 - 1989 (Roger Aubrey Baskerville) Former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B18459