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[Canterbury Tales]

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Title-page Attribution: ‘that noble & grete philosopher Gefferey Chaucer’ (Prohemye)
An imperfect copy, wanting gathering a8; leaves b1,2,7,8; 2a8; 2c1, 8; I1, 8; K8; L6. Leaves c5; p2; 2d7; 2f1; E2 mutilated and repaired
With woodcuts
Other Copies: 9 (British Library, Cambridge Magdalene, Cambridge Pepys, Oxford St. John’s, Rylands, Indiana, Morgan, Yale CBA, Yale Sterling)

1483

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Title: [Canterbury Tales]
Publication Location: Westminster
Editor: By William Caxton
Date: 1483
Language: English
No of scans: 580
Type: Print
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  • AuthorsChaucer, Geoffrey
  • Author Years(c. 1340-1400)
  • Title[Canterbury Tales]
  • Varying form of TitleCanterbury Tales
  • Language(s)eng
Publication, distribution
  • Publication LocationWestminster
  • PublisherBy William Caxton
  • Publication Date1483/4
Edition
Description material
  • TypePrint
  • Ilustrationill.
  • Volume2° ; 28 x 20.5 cm
  • Collation628 p.
  • BindingBrown morocco, modern, with arms of ‘Royal Society’
  • Signaturea-t8 v6 2a-2h8 2i6 A-K8 L6
Remarques
  • General NotesTitle-page Attribution: ‘that noble & grete philosopher Gefferey Chaucer’ (Prohemye)
    An imperfect copy, wanting gathering a8; leaves b1,2,7,8; 2a8; 2c1, 8; I1, 8; K8; L6. Leaves c5; p2; 2d7; 2f1; E2 mutilated and repaired
    With woodcuts
    Other Copies: 9 (British Library, Cambridge Magdalene, Cambridge Pepys, Oxford St. John’s, Rylands, Indiana, Morgan, Yale CBA, Yale Sterling)
  • AnnotationTextual glosses and finding notes, esp. in Parson’s Tale
  • Citation Source NameSTC (2nd edn.) 5083 De Ricci, A Census of Caxtons, p. 28
Identification
  • ConstellationLittérature élisabéthaine
  • PID666
  • Shelf MarkInc. Bodmer 70
  • DOI10.13097/BodmerLab/1072056424
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  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
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