Littérature élisabéthaine

The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere.

1532

Constellation Littérature élisabéthaine

The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere.

Title-page Attribution: As above
2Q3 cancelled by four leaves bearing Robert Henryson’s ‘The testament of Creseyde’
Imprint from colophon
Other Copies: 28

1532

Auteur: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Titre: The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere.
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Printed at Lo(n)don by Thomas Godfray. The yere of our lorde M.D.xxxii.
Date: 1532
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 804
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?