The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in printe before: with the siege and destruccion of the worthy citee of Thebes, compiled by Ihon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the table more plainly dooeth appere
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Type of record: Book
Title: The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in printe before: with the siege and destruccion of the worthy citee of Thebes, compiled by Ihon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the table more plainly dooeth appere
Classmark: BC H de W/CHA
Creator(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400)
Additional creator(s): Thynne, William (1546) (Other); Stow, John (1525?-1605) (Other); Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?) (Other)
Related people: Thynne, William; Stow, John; Lydgate, John
Publisher: By Ihon Kyngston, for Ihon Wight, dwellyng in Poules Churchyarde
Publication city: Imprinted at London
Date(s): 1561
Language: English
Size and medium: [10], ccclxxviij leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/294680
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003322909705181
Description
Edited by William Thynne, who is named on [fleuron]2r; with additions, mostly spurious, by John Stow.
Mostly in verse.
Contains a number of non-Chaucerian works.
Imprint from colophon (printed in double columns).
"The Caunterburie tales" and "The romaunt of the rose" each has separate divisional title; foliation and register are continuous.
One of two issues with identical colophon imprints, this being the one with Chaucer's arms on the title-page, and with the Prologues to the Canterbury tales printed on 5 leaves, without woodcuts.
Indexed in: STC 5076.
Additional description
Two signatures on title-page, those of Antonio José (?) and Edward Quaile. Bound by Rivière as a facsimile in leather of a Tudor embroidered binding
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