Lot 58
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes, Geor. Bishop, 1598.
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes, largely printed in black letter and double column, title within fine woodcut border, engraved portrait, woodcut divisional titles, full-page arms, illustration at head of Knight's Tale and numerous initials, foxed and browned, sig.3R misbound, 2 leaves in sig 4A duplicated, old manuscript notes on front free endpaper, lacking final leaf (?blank), small hole in c5, later calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked, [Pforzheimer 177; STC 5079], folio, Geor. Bishop, 1598.
⁂ A handsome copy of the first Speight edition which was also the first to include a portrait of Chaucer. Speight's glossary is the first printed glossary of Middle English.
Provenance: James Bindley (armorial bookplate).
Description
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes, largely printed in black letter and double column, title within fine woodcut border, engraved portrait, woodcut divisional titles, full-page arms, illustration at head of Knight's Tale and numerous initials, foxed and browned, sig.3R misbound, 2 leaves in sig 4A duplicated, old manuscript notes on front free endpaper, lacking final leaf (?blank), small hole in c5, later calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked, [Pforzheimer 177; STC 5079], folio, Geor. Bishop, 1598.
⁂ A handsome copy of the first Speight edition which was also the first to include a portrait of Chaucer. Speight's glossary is the first printed glossary of Middle English.
Provenance: James Bindley (armorial bookplate).