The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217913
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v. ; 12mo. Imperfect: vol. 1 wants individual titlepage and portrait frontis. Vol. 1 inscribed: 100 vols 18/-/ [i.e. for whole series]. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case C. Shelf 3. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: nineteenth-century imitation green morocco (sheep); gilt tooled; gilt lettered and numbered spines: British poets ... Uniform with series.
Makers and roles
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), author Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858), editor