The workes of our ancient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer.

Accession number:

PML 5899

Author:

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Published:

[London : Printed by Adam Islip, an. Dom. 1602.]

Credit:

Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Description:

[24], 350, 353-376, [14] leaves (the first leaf blank), [1] leaf of plates : ill., geneal. table, port. ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Notes:

Editor's dedication signed: Tho. Speght.
Signatures: [a]⁶ b-c⁶ A-3N⁶ 3O⁴ 3P-3T⁶ 3U⁸ ; (leaf 2O4 and 3S4 signed O.iiii. and Sss.iii.)
Printed in two columns.
PML copy lacking first leaf (blank), title-page, and John Speed's portrait of Chaucer; the second title-page (without imprint) is bound in place of the first.
Title within woodcut border. Cf. McKerrow & Ferguson.
Errata leaf at end.
Section title following Chaucers life with woodcut of Chaucer arms.
Engraved portrait plate has heading "The progenie of Geffrey Chaucer" and is signed: IS [i.e. John Speed].
Head- and tail-pieces, including woodcut illustration at head of A Knight's tale on leaf B1, folio 1.
Includes John Lydgates's Siege of Thebes on leaves 353-375.

Binding:

Calf, rebacked with arms and badge of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612), with English arms and Prince of Wales's feathers in corners, originally in silver tooling.

Variant Title:

Workes of our ancient and learned English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer

Provenance:

With arms and badge of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612), son of James I and Anne of Denmark; from the Toovey collection, with the Burnham Abbey bookplate.

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Classification:

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Department:

Printed Books