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Here begynneth the boke of Caunterbury tales : dilygently and truely corrected, and newly printed

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Type of record: Book

Title: Here begynneth the boke of Caunterbury tales : dilygently and truely corrected, and newly printed

Other titles: Canterbury tales

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Safe/CHA

Creator(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400)

Additional creator(s): Pynson, Richard (1530) (Other); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) (Other); Huth, Henry (1815-1878) (Other)

Related people: Pynson, Richard; Bedford, Francis; Huth, Henry

Publisher: In Fletestrete, by me Rycharde Pynson, printed unto the kynges noble grace

Publication city: Imprinted at London

Date(s): 1526

Language: English

Size and medium: [256] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/311298

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005829869705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Signatures: A-U⁶ X-Y⁴.


Imprint from colophon.


Woodcut illus. on t.-p. within border of ornamental panels; printer's mark (McK.35) on recto of last leaf.


The text of this edition is based on Pynson's first ed. ([1492?]), which had been corrected by comparison with a copy of Caxton's second ed. ([1484?]). Ten of the 18 woodcuts are from the blocks used in Pynson's first ed., 6 are copies & 2 are new (for full descriptions, see Hodnett).


This, his "The boke of fame" (STC 5088) & his "The boke of Troylus and Creseyde" (STC 5096), "may be called the first edition of Chaucer's works".--cf. STC (2nd ed.).


Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.), 5086.

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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