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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| Subjects: | |
| 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 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The workes of our antient and lerned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed : |b 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. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Workes of our antient and lerned English poet, Geffrey Chavcer, newly printed | |
| 264 | 1 | |a Londini : |b Impensis Geor. Bishop, |c anno 1598. | |
| 300 | |a 28 unnumbered pages, 394 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : |b illustrations, genealogical tables, portrait (engraved) ; |c 33 cm (folio in sixes) | ||
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| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a One of three issues printed by Adam Islip. See Wing. Short title catalogue (2nd edition). | ||
| 500 | |a In this issue the printer's name is absent and the title is within an ornamental border (McKerrow & Ferguson 148). | ||
| 500 | |a 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. | ||
| 500 | |a Chiefly in verse. | ||
| 500 | |a Gothic type. | ||
| 500 | |a Printed in double columns. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes spurious works. | ||
| 500 | |a Based upon the editions of William Thynne and John Stow. | ||
| 500 | |a Editor's dedication to Sir Robert Cecil signed: Tho. Speght. | ||
| 500 | |a 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. | ||
| 500 | |a Signatures: [a]⁶ b-c⁶ [paragraph]⁴ A-U⁶ 2A-2T⁶ 2U-2X⁸ 2Y-4A⁶ 4B⁸ (leaves [a]1 and 4B8 blank). | ||
| 500 | |a 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. | ||
| 500 | |a 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. | ||
| 500 | |a Head- and tail-pieces (some typographical); initials and initial borders. | ||
| 500 | |a Leaves 4B3r-4B7v: "Corrections of some faults, and annotations vpon some places." | ||
| 510 | 4 | |a English short title catalogue, |c S107208 | |
| 510 | 4 | |a Hammond, E.P. Chaucer, |c p. 123-125 | |
| 510 | 4 | |a 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.), |c 5077 | |
| 510 | 4 | |a Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, |c 177 | |
| 561 | 1 | |a Marginal notes (in a nineteenth-century hand?) on leaves B3r and K6r; impression (of scissors or another metal object?) between leaves 2M7v and 2M8r. |5 MiEM | |
| 563 | |a 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". |5 MiEM | ||
| 590 | |a 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. | ||
| 590 | |a 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. | ||
| 590 | |a MSU: Folio 83 numbered correctly; folio 194 misnumbered as 164. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Chaucer, Anne, |c Duchess of Suffolk. |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Speght, Thomas, |d -1621, |e editor. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85005968 | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Stow, John, |d 1525?-1605, |e editor. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85310579 | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Thynne, William, |d -1546, |e editor. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93010303 | |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Lydgate, John, |d 1370?-1451? |t Siege of Thebes. |f 1598. |
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