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CHAUCER, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). The Works ... Together with The Life of Chaucer, edited by Thomas Speght, London: [no publisher], 1687. 2° (325 x 200mm.). Engraved portrait frontispiece, printed in double column. 18th-century calf. (Rebacked with later spine, rubbed, upper cover detached, lower joints weak, spine faded). Provenance: N. W. M. Brunton (bookplate); 2 illegible library stamps to title page. Lowndes 426; Wing C3736.
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CHAUCER, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). The Works ... Together with The Life of Chaucer, edited by Thomas Speght, London: [no publisher], 1687. 2° (325 x 200mm.). Engraved portrait frontispiece, printed in double column. 18th-century calf. (Rebacked with later spine, rubbed, upper cover detached, lower joints weak, spine faded). Provenance: N. W. M. Brunton (bookplate); 2 illegible library stamps to title page. Lowndes 426; Wing C3736.
This is the first of Speght's editions to include John Lidgate's Story of the Siege of Thebes.
This is the first of Speght's editions to include John Lidgate's Story of the Siege of Thebes.