![CHAUCER, Geoffrey (ca 1345-1400). The Canterbury Tales. [Westminster: William Caxton, late 1476 or 1477].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYE/2001_NYE_08619_0431_000(040300).jpg?w=1)
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CHAUCER, Geoffrey (ca 1345-1400). The Canterbury Tales. [Westminster: William Caxton, late 1476 or 1477].
Chancery 2o (232 x 183mm). FIRST EDITION. Single leaf (of 374), from the beginning of the Sergeant-at-Law's Tale, incipit: Of one she knoweth not the condition Husbandis been alle gode and have be yore That knowe Wyuys I dar say nomore, recto line 16-17: Wommen are born to thraldom & to penaunce And to be under mannys gouernaunce. The saintly Constance is preparing to meet her husband, an unknown sultan. No watermark in this half-sheet. Bastarda type 2:135, cut by Johann Veldener. Provenance: fourth Earl of Ashburnham, his third copy sold at Sotheby's 9 May 1898, lot 4061 (Christie's census 23, see Wentworth sale catalogue, London 8 July 1998, p. 28) -- Caxton Club, Chicago, which acquired 148 original leaves to illustrate their 1905 limited edition of E. Gordon Duff's William Caxton (included with this lot), inside back-cover pocket of the cloth-backed board binding.
Chancery 2o (232 x 183mm). FIRST EDITION. Single leaf (of 374), from the beginning of the Sergeant-at-Law's Tale, incipit: Of one she knoweth not the condition Husbandis been alle gode and have be yore That knowe Wyuys I dar say nomore, recto line 16-17: Wommen are born to thraldom & to penaunce And to be under mannys gouernaunce. The saintly Constance is preparing to meet her husband, an unknown sultan. No watermark in this half-sheet. Bastarda type 2:135, cut by Johann Veldener. Provenance: fourth Earl of Ashburnham, his third copy sold at Sotheby's 9 May 1898, lot 4061 (Christie's census 23, see Wentworth sale catalogue, London 8 July 1998, p. 28) -- Caxton Club, Chicago, which acquired 148 original leaves to illustrate their 1905 limited edition of E. Gordon Duff's William Caxton (included with this lot), inside back-cover pocket of the cloth-backed board binding.