Here begynneth the boke of Fame, made by Geffray Chaucer : with dyvers other of his workes
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Type of record: Book
Title: Here begynneth the boke of Fame, made by Geffray Chaucer : with dyvers other of his workes
Other titles: House of fame
Classmark: BC Safe/CHA
Creator(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400)
Additional creator(s): Caxton, William (1422-1491) (Other); Chartier, Alain (1385-1433) (Other); Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?) (Other); Ros, Sir Richard (Other); Pynson, Richard (1530) (Other); Huth, Henry (1815-1878) (Other); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400) (Other)
Related people: Caxton, William; Chartier, Alain; Lydgate, John; Lydgate, John; Lydgate, John; Ros, Richard; Pynson, Richard; Huth, Henry; Chaucer, Geoffrey
Publisher: By Richarde Pynson, printer to the kynges most noble grace
Publication city: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete
Date(s): [1526?]
Language: English
Size and medium: [60] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/311297
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005829829705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Signatures: a-e[sup]6ยท[sup]4 f[sup]6.
Imprint from colophon.
This work is generally known as The house of fame.
Edited by William Caxton.--cf. STC (2nd ed.).
Date of printing suggested by STC (2nd ed.).
Woodcut illustration on t.-p. within border of ornamental panels; same cut and panels repeated on verso; for full description of the woodcuts, see Hodnett.
Contents:The boke of fame.--The assemble of foules.--La bele dame sauns mercy [by Alain Chartier, translated by Sir Richard Ros].--Morall proverbes.--The complaynt of Mary Magdaleyne [attributed to John Lydgate].--The letter of Dydo to Eneas [attributed to Lydgate].--Proverbes of Lydgate.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.), 5088.
Additional description
Bound with three other publications by Chaucer. Volume contents: 1. Troilus and Criseyde, [1526?]. -- 2. House of fame, [1526?]. -- 3. Canterbury tales, [1526]
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