Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, largely printed in black letter, double column, engraved portrait frontispiece, c1 (mis-signed d1) misbound after c4 and with large woodcut arms on recto, 7-line cancel slip pasted over bottom right-hand stanza on p. 42, later panelled calf, rebacked preserving old gilt spine and covers repaired at corners and bottom right of upper cover, [Wing C3736; Pforzheimer 179], 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: Matthew White, Viscount Ridley (bookplate to front pastedown beneath another, unidentified, bookplate); Arthur Cole (bookplate to rear pastedown and ink initials dated 1942 to front pastedown).