Accession number
PML 5897
Creator
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Published
[London] : Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Wyllyam Bonham, dwellynge at the sygne of the Kynges armes in Pauls Church-yarde, 1542.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Signatures: A⁴ B-2Y⁶ 2A-2T⁶.
Contains the first printing of the Plowman's tale.
Edited by William Thynne.
Includes a number of spurious works.
Edwards brothers no. 131 (case A, carton 2).
A variant of the 1542 edition with imprint "Prynted by Iohn Reynes ..".
Contains the first printing of the Plowman's tale.
Edited by William Thynne.
Includes a number of spurious works.
Edwards brothers no. 131 (case A, carton 2).
A variant of the 1542 edition with imprint "Prynted by Iohn Reynes ..".
Description
[10], ccclxxxxii [i.e. 372] leaves : illustrated ; 33 cm (fol).
Inscriptions/Markings
Occasional manicules, underlining, and marginal notes (several of which have been partially obliterated by trimming, mainly in Shipman's Tale). "Romaunt of the Rose" and "Testament of Loue" more heavily annotated.
Provenance
Ellis, unknown catalogue, 1892, no. 106; Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Brown blind-tooled morocco over wooden boards, gilt and gauffered edges, by Kennington.
Classification
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