The vvorks 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'd with particular notes for the better understanding their original.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
Category
Books
Date
1687
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3236551
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36], 660, [24] p. : ill. (woodcuts), port. (metal cut) ; fol. Former shelfmark: BC.V.5. Running number: 6835. Provenance: armorial bookplate (Franks 6941): arms of Cory with Preston on an escutcheon, lettered 'R: Cory Junr.' [i.e. Robert Cory (1776-1840), of Great Yarmouth]. Occasional marginal pencil marks. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; double blind fillet border mitred at the corners to a double blind fillet inner panel with blind floral cornerpieces inside corners; gilt roll pattern along board edges; spine rebacked (nineteenth-century) in gold-tooled calf, with gilt title 'Works of Chaucer' on red leather label; red sprinkled bookblock edges; nineteenth-century endpapers.
Makers and roles
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), author John Lydgate (1370-1451), author Thomas Speght (fl.1600), editor