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CHAUCER, Geoffrey (1340-1400). The Workes. London: Adam Islip, 1602.
2° (321 x 212mm). Black letter in double column, with the final errata leaf. Title within a historiated and architectural border. (Lacking the portrait frontispiece, without the front blank, ink stain in the fore-margin of the last gatherings, occasional light marginal dampstain and light spotting, marginal tear in the last leaf.) 17th-century calf, sides ruled and tooled in blind (rebacked, corners rubbed, some wear). Provenance: ?Nicoll (title signature, some light marginalia perhaps in the same hand) -- Gray's Inn Library (small stamp on the title and a few other leaves) -- A.H. Bright (bookplate).
The last of the 'early' editions of Chaucer. There was no further reprint of the works until 1687. Grolier, Langland to Prior I:44; STC 5080.
2° (321 x 212mm). Black letter in double column, with the final errata leaf. Title within a historiated and architectural border. (Lacking the portrait frontispiece, without the front blank, ink stain in the fore-margin of the last gatherings, occasional light marginal dampstain and light spotting, marginal tear in the last leaf.) 17th-century calf, sides ruled and tooled in blind (rebacked, corners rubbed, some wear). Provenance: ?Nicoll (title signature, some light marginalia perhaps in the same hand) -- Gray's Inn Library (small stamp on the title and a few other leaves) -- A.H. Bright (bookplate).
The last of the 'early' editions of Chaucer. There was no further reprint of the works until 1687. Grolier, Langland to Prior I:44; STC 5080.
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