The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer: . as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts; and several things added, never before in print. To which is adjoyn'd the story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate, monk of Bury. Together with the life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death. Also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words (which are many) that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, Franch, Dutch, or Saxon, mark's with particular notes for the better understanding their original.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
Category
Books
Date
1687
Materials
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 3166599
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36],660,[24]p., plate . ill.. (woodcuts), port.. (metal cut) . fol.. Sig. K1 (pp. 65-6) partly burnt away, with loss to text. Provenance: Seventeenth-century ms. list of page references on pastedown. Repeated seventeenth-century initials on flyleaf: W. or M. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: Chute of the Vyne [i.e. Chaloner William Chute (1838-1892); the plate was designed for him in 1885 by his brother-in-law William Wyndham Portal, but also used by later generations]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf over boards; double blind border fillet and quarter fillet; later (?) gilt overlaying blind fillets on spine; later (nineteenth-century?) spine label with ms. title ‘Chaucer’s Works’; sewn on five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) John Lydgate (1370-1451) Thomas Speght (fl.1600)