The Nonnes preestes tale of the cok and hen / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; with introduction by William Cushing Bamburgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, author.

Contributor:

Bamburgh, William Cushing, illuminator.

Grafton Press, publisher.

De Vinne Press, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Nun's priest's tale

Language:

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.

English literature.

Genre:

Fiction

Fiction.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Gothic.

Whatman (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

64, [2] pages, 1 leaf of plates : portrait, illustrations ; 23 cm

4to.

Manufacture:

New York : DeVinne Press

Place of Publication:

New York : Grafton Press, 1902.

Notes:

Gothic type.

Colophon: "Of this edition . published in the month of March, 1902, by the Grafton press, of the city of New York, there have been printed by Theodore L. DeVinne & co., four numbered copies on Japanese vellum, twenty-six lettered copies on Whatman paper with illuminated title pages and initials, and one hundred and one rubricated copies on Whatman paper. No other copies will be published. The copies lettered A to Z have been illumined by William Cushing Bamburgh." Copy no

Title enclosed in red ornamental border; red initials.

"The Nonnes preestes tale glossary": iii pages (laid in).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 34. In protective wrapper.

OCLC:

5053425