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The book of Geoffrey Chaucer : an account of the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's works from the fifteenth century to modern times / by Charles Muscatine.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Vilain-Wieck Collection Reference 308
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muscatine, Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Bibliography.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism, Textual.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Bibliographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 64 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : facsimiles (some color) ; 36 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1963.
- Summary:
- Discusses the publishing history of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with reproductions of pages from various editions from the 1400's to the late 1800's. Also includes one tipped in original leaf from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's Works ("Parliament of Foules", fol. CCXLVI).
- Contents:
- The manuscripts
- The incunabula
- The blackletter folios
- The eighteenth century
- The nineteenth century
- Chronological check-list of the printed editions of Chaucer to 1778
- List of principal authorities consulted.
- Notes:
- "450 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy."--verso of title page.
- "A chronological check-list of the printed editions of Chaucer to 1778": pages 61-62.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust wrapper.
- OCLC:
- 10645329
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