Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, largely printed in black letter, double column, engraved portrait frontispiece, c1 (mis-signed d1) with large woodcut arms on recto and misbound after c3, 7-line cancel slip pasted over bottom right-hand stanza on p. 42, frontispiece and title with staining to inner-edge, a1 tiny rust-hole affecting single letter, 3O4 small paper-flaw hole affecting couple letters to verso, few minor marginal defects, the odd small stain, some later pencil annotation, some spotting and browning, generally light, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, preserving gilt spine with later morocco label, quite worn, later endpapers, [Pforzheimer 179; Wing C3736], folio, 1687.

⁂ "This is the last black-letter edition and is, except for the then recently discovered conclusions of the Cook's and Squire's Tales, verso [4S2], a reprint of the 1602 edition...without any additions" (Pforzheimer).

Provenance: George Cockburn; General J.G. Clay K.C. (armorial bookplates).