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The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chavcer, newly Printed.

Title-page Attribution: As above
With plate, ‘The progenie of Geffrey Chaucer’
Includes John Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes and spurious works attributed to Chaucer
Other Copies: 24

1598

Auteur: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Titre: The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chavcer, newly Printed.
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton.
Date: 1598
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 882
Type: Print
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  • that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world? 
  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
  • that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
  • that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
  • more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?