Lot 188
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed, 1602.
Hammer Price: £3,500
Description
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed, double column, black letter, title within woodcut architectural border, divisional title with woodcut coat-of-arms, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, errata, lacking frontispiece, title with contemporary pen trials recto and verso, those recto all marginal, a few contemporary ink inscriptions elsewhere, one the name "Elizabeth Browne" to foot of errata f., a very little scattered spotting, some soiling and browning to fore edges, a few ff. with short closed tears, hinges strengthened, contemporary calf, recased, [STC 5080], 4to, by Adam Islip, 1602
***The second Speight edition. With Lydgate's The Storie of Thebes; also with much erroneously attributed to Chaucer.
Provenance: G.W. Wentworth (bookplate)
Description
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed, double column, black letter, title within woodcut architectural border, divisional title with woodcut coat-of-arms, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, errata, lacking frontispiece, title with contemporary pen trials recto and verso, those recto all marginal, a few contemporary ink inscriptions elsewhere, one the name "Elizabeth Browne" to foot of errata f., a very little scattered spotting, some soiling and browning to fore edges, a few ff. with short closed tears, hinges strengthened, contemporary calf, recased, [STC 5080], 4to, by Adam Islip, 1602
***The second Speight edition. With Lydgate's The Storie of Thebes; also with much erroneously attributed to Chaucer.
Provenance: G.W. Wentworth (bookplate)
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