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Canterbury tales : Composed for the entertainment of all ingenious young men and maids, at their merry meetings at Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, or any other time, especially on the long winter evening, to keep his wits employed. Intermixed with pleasant stories, witty Jests, and delightful songs, very proper for either city, town, or country / By J. Chaucer, Junior.

Accession number
PML 8218.10
Creator
Chaucer (Junior)
Published
[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
J. Chaucer is a pseudonym.
In this edition, the title on t.p. comprises 12 lines and the caption title on p. 2 is printed between a double and a single straight rule.
Vertical chain lines.
Research by David Stoker suggests a general publication date range spanning from the 1770s to the 1780s for chapbooks bearing the "Aldermary Churchyard" and "Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Lane" imprints, with those bearing the street address "No. 4 Aldermary Churchyard" probably printed sometime after the mid 1770s.
Description
24 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.
Classification
Department