The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Contributor:

Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Chaucer Society (Series). First series ; 3.

Chaucer Society (Series). First series ; 9.

Chaucer Society (Series). First series ; 27.

Chaucer Society (Series). First series ; 39.

Chaucer Society (Series). First series ; 51.

Chaucer Society (Series). First series ; 71.

Chaucer society. [Publications] First series ; [nos. 3, 9, 27, 39, 51, 71]

Language:

English

Physical Description:

x pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 654, that is, 659, 30* pages, 27 unnumbered pages, 2 leaves, 23 plates ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1868-1879.

Notes:

Page 557 duplicated, and extra pages 558a-b, 559a-b inserted.

Issued in 6 parts, 1869-1881.

"Drawings of the 23 tellers of the 24 Canterbury tales, copied from the Ellesmere ms. ... by Mr. W. H. Hooper." The drawings of "6 tellers of tales, etc." from the Cambridge ms. are wanting; perhaps were not issued. cf. the colored set issued with no. LXXII for the Six-text edition.

Appendix of pieces not in the Hengwrt ms.: The spurious tale of Gamelyn, from Harleian ms. 1758 ... Cannon-Yeoman's tale from the Lichfield cathedral ms.

Local Notes:

The 1st bound between p. 128 and 129.

Furness copy bound in 2 vols.

OCLC:

4709362