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The Canterbury tales
Canterbury tales
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- English, Middle (1100-1500)
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- [London, England] : [Richard Pynson], [between June 1491 and 13 November 1492]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource ([648] pages) : illustrations (woodcuts)
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- Based on 2nd edition of William Caxton.
- Without foliation or catchwords. With headlines. Black letter. A full page contains 33 lines. The tales in prose are printed in double columns in smaller type. A full column generally contains 38 or 39 lines.
- 21 different woodcut illustrations with 26 repeats.
- Format: Folio.
- Signatures: a-u⁸ 2a-2k⁸ 2l⁶ A-I⁸ K⁴ (K4 blank).
- Capital spaces, with guide letters.
- Museum collection: Senate House Library, University of London.
- Shelfmark: [Incunabula] 133 (S).
- Provenance: ULL copy is from the library of Sir Louis Sterling; purchased Feb. 1937. Arms of Thomas Grenville stamped on doublures. Lot 187 in Grenville sale, 19 Mar. 1896. Previously owned by Lambert family, with 16th-cent. notes about birth of various members on leaf h2r.
- Binding: ULL copy bound in 19th-century brown levant morocco, blind-tooled, with gilt edges. Five raised bands on spine. Earlier russia binding used as doublures.
- Additional information: ULL copy is imperfect, wanting leaves a1-4, a8, B1, d1, F3,6, and all after F8; leaves a1-4, a8, B1 and F3 supplied in facsimile Leaf a2 bound in back to front. Leaves 2k4.5 supplied from another copy. Facsim. of final leaf of the Parson's tale is inserted following F8. Several leaves repaired. Paragraph marks in red. Some capitals supplied in brown or washed blue ink. Glossed in English and Latin in 15th-cent. hand, with red paragraph marks in same hand and those used for main text; gloss described in: D.W. Mosser, 'The manuscript glosses of the Canterbury Tales and the University of London's copy of Pynson's [1492] edition', Chaucer review, 41 (2007), 360-392.
- ISTC, ic00433000
- Wild, M.F. Incunabula in the libraries of the University of London, 86
- Sterling Library, I,171
- ESTC, S108831
- Goff, C433
- Hain-Copinger, 4923
- Duff, 89
- STC, 5084
- Bod-inc, C-173
- Sheppard, 7526-77
- Proctor, 9780
- BM 15th century, XI 264
- GW, 6587