The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer. . With an essay on his language and versification, and an introductory discourse; together with notes and a glossary. By Thomas Tyrwhitt.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
Category
Books
Date
1874
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
NT 3145083
Summary
Bibliographic description
x,[2],lxx,[2],501,[1]p. . 24 cm.. Pencil price on endpaper: 22/-.. Provenance: Rugby School book label on pastedown, made out to J.W. Pennyman, being a prize for mathematics 1st Dec. 1874 [i.e. James Worsley Pennyman (1856-1924)]. In pencil on endpaper: "Pennyman".. Binding: Full polished calf; double fillets; gold embossed armorial of Rugby School as centrepiece; marbled endpapers, gold edges. Part of spine detached. Binder's tamp: G. Hogg, binder.
Makers and roles
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730-1786)