The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer . edited, from numerous manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat ...
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
Category
Books
Date
1899 - 1900
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3019115
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v.,plates . 8vo. Imperfect: wanting vol. VI. Shelved with first edition of vol. VI (1894). With marginal pencil marks and manuscript dates of reading (p.115, v.i Dec. 30 1904; Canterbury Tales 'Ended Dec. 30 1904, skipping the parson' ). manuscript notes throughout, some possibly the hand of Mary Trevelyan. manuscriptlist of themes, similes and metre changes after the Canterbury Tales. manuscript note in v.III p. 79 next to line 'The god of love, and in his hande a quene': 'Wallington picture'.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Half morocco; green cloth boards, gilt tops. Bound uniform with vol. VI, B.5.12. Binder's stamp on free endpaper verso: Bound by Riviere & Son.
Makers and roles
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) Walter William Skeat (1835-1912)