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Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyvers workes whiche were never in print before, [edited by William Thynne], double column, black letter, both titles within woodcut architectural borders, B1r with woodcut of the Knight before castle, E6v with woodcut of the Squire, woodcut decorative initials, lacking 3G6, 3Q1 and final blank, 2B3&4 and X4 supplied from another copy and on different paper stock, ownership inscription of Bishop Hobhouse of Nelson to front free endpaper, title with ownership inscription dated 1583 and few ink smudges, title and colophon f. with date supplied in early ink manuscript, a few instances of early ink passage-marking or annotation, E1&2 small loss to fore-edge affecting some letters, trimmed, sometimes into text at fore-edge and affecting some headlines/pagination, occasional light soiling or small staining, some light browning, 19th century blind-tooled calf, neatly rebacked preserving original backstrip, lightly rubbed, [Pforzheimer 175; STC 5074], folio (277 x 174mm.), [Nicholas Hill] for Robart Toye, [c.1550].

⁂ A good and largely complete copy of the undated fourth collected edition, one of four variants to be published simultaneously by four London booksellers (William Bonham, Richard Kele, Thomas Petit and Robert Toye), each variant bearing a different colophon. This is the last edition of Thynne's highly regarded version of The Workes.