Accession number
PML 5899
Creator
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Published
[London : Printed by Adam Islip, an. Dom. 1602.]
Credit line
Toovey collection,
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; th
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; th
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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