The workes of our antient and lerned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions: 1 His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2 His life collected. 3 Arguments to euery booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two bookes of his neuer before printed.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Contributor:

Speght, Thomas, -1621.

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?.

Speed, John, 1552?-1629, engraver.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 314:2.

Standardized Title:

Works

Language:

English

Physical Description:

29 unnumbered leaves, 394 leaves, 14 unnumbered leaves, plate : illustrations, portrait

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Romaunt of the rose.

Canterbury tales.

Progenie of Geffrey Chaucer.

Story of Thebes.

Place of Publication:

Londini : [Printed by Adam Islip] impensis Geor. Bishop, Anno. 1598.

Notes:

Editor's dedication signed: Tho. Speght.

Includes "The siege of Thebes" by John Lydgate. Contains many works not by Chaucer.

Mostly in verse.

"The Canterbury tales", "The romaunt of the rose", and "The story of Thebes" have divisional titles; foliation and register are continuous.

With an errata leaf whose position may vary; placed in preliminaries in foliation above.

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

The plate has heading "The progenie of Geffrey Chaucer" and is signed: IS, i.e. John Speed.

A variant of the edition with Adam Islip's name in the imprint.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1947. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 314:02). s1947 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 5077.

Related Work:

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?. Siege of Thebes.

OCLC:

61365359