The workes of our antient and lerned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed : in this impression you shall find these additions: 1 His portraiture and progenie shewed : 2 His life collected : 3 Arguments to euery booke gathered : 4 Old and obscure words explaned : 5 Authors by him cited, declared : 6 Difficulties opened : 7 Two bookes of his neuer before printed.
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| Uniform Title: | Works. 1598 |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , |
| Language: | English, Middle (1100-1500) |
| Language of the Original: |
French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
Latin |
| Published: |
Londini :
Impensis Geor. Bishop,
anno 1598.
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
Marginal notes (in a nineteenth-century hand?) on leaves B3r and K6r; impression (of scissors or another metal object?) between leaves 2M7v and 2M8r. |
| Local Note: |
MSU: Conservation of this book made possible by Office of the Provost, Michigan State University, in memory of Professor Lister Matheson, Department of English, 1986-2012.
MSU: Lacking leaf [a]1 (blank), title page (leaf a2; replaced in facsimile), leaf A1, and leaf 4B8 (blank); a printed copy of leaf A1r from the Huntington copy is available in MSS 466, Box 4, Folder 232.
MSU: Folio 83 numbered correctly; folio 194 misnumbered as 164. |
| Binding Information: |
In contemporary or near-contemporary full calf, rebacked in modern calf; five raised bands on spine; boards tooled and stamped in gilt (much worn away); center of each board bears an ornamental stamp in gilt, flanked by initials "SH". |
| Physical Description: | 28 unnumbered pages, 394 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables, portrait (engraved) ; 33 cm (folio in sixes) |
| Variant Title: |
Workes of our antient and lerned English poet, Geffrey Chavcer, newly printed |
| Format: | Book |
| Note: | One of three issues printed by Adam Islip. See Wing. Short title catalogue (2nd edition). In this issue the printer's name is absent and the title is within an ornamental border (McKerrow & Ferguson 148). Other variants of the 1598 Chaucer have a different architectural border around the title page, and have either imprint: London, Printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton. Anno 1598; or imprint with Thomas Wight in place of Norton's name. Cf. STC. Chiefly in verse. Gothic type. Printed in double columns. Includes spurious works. Based upon the editions of William Thynne and John Stow. Editor's dedication to Sir Robert Cecil signed: Tho. Speght. Numerous errors in foliation. In some copies of this issue folio 83 is misnumbered 80; in others folio 83 is correctly numbered. In some copies folio 194 is misnumbered 164; in others folio 194 is correctly numbered, with the 4 inverted. Signatures: [a]⁶ b-c⁶ [paragraph]⁴ A-U⁶ 2A-2T⁶ 2U-2X⁸ 2Y-4A⁶ 4B⁸ (leaves [a]1 and 4B8 blank). Leaf b1 mis-signed as c1; leaf [paragraph]3 mis-signed A3; leaf 2E3 mis-signed as 2E2; leaf 2Q3 mis-signed Q3; leaf 2Z1 mis-signed Zs1; leaf 3B4 is unsigned; leaf 3U2 mis-signed as 3T2. Title within woodcut architectural border, bearing date 1574, and incorporating initials "NH" and motto "Possidete animas vestras". "The Canterbury tales," "The Romaunt of the Rose," and "The Story of Thebes: compiled by Iohn Lidgate, monke of Bury," each have a separate title within a woodcut border showing the houses of York and Lancaster, terminating in Henry VIII (McKerrow & Ferguson 75). The engraved portrait of Chaucer, preceding the life, has border giving his "Progenie," with coats of arms, etc. Head- and tail-pieces (some typographical); initials and initial borders. Leaves 4B3r-4B7v: "Corrections of some faults, and annotations vpon some places." |
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| Call Number: | PR1850 1598 XX folio |
| References: |
English short title catalogue, S107208
Hammond, E.P. Chaucer, p. 123-125
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), 5077
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 177 |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |