The workes of Geffray Chaucer newlye printed, wyth dyuers workes whych were neuer in print before
Subtitle: as in the table more playnly doth appere. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum
Contributors: Thynne, William, -1546
Publisher: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Wyllyam Bonham, dwellynge at the sygne of the Kynges armes in Pauls Church-yarde
Published: 1542
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Other titles: Caunterbury tales; Romaunt of the rose; Boetius de consolatione philosophie
Work titles: Works
Notes: Edited by William Thynne.

Mostly in verse.

Includes a number of spurious works.

Actual printer's name from STC.

"The Caunterbury tales", "The romau[n]t of the rose" and "Boetius de consolatione philosophie" each have separate divisional title; foliation and register are continuous.

Leaves 371, 372 misnumbered ccclxxx, ccclxxxxii.

A variant of the 1542 edition with imprint "Prynted by Iohn Reynes."

Signatures: A⁴ B-2Y⁶ 2A-2T⁶.

Title within wood cut border.

Colophon: Thus endeth the workes of Geffray Chaucer, Prynted at London. The yere of our lorde. 1542.

"The Caunterbury tales", "The romau[n]t of the rose" and "Boetius de consolatione philosophie" each have separate divisional title; foliation and register are continuous. Leaves 371, 372 misnumbered ccclxxx, ccclxxxxii.

Rare Book copy: Inserted frontispiece with watercolor portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer, undated.

Rare Book copy: Title page mounted on blank leaf.

Rare Book copy: This copy is identical with the description of the second collected edition as given in Clark, W.A. The library of William Andrews Clark, jr. Early English literature ... v. 1, p. 37-39, except in varations from the "errors of signatures" given in the Clark description: the statement that Dd is omitted in Dd3 is incorrect for this copy; Ee2-Ee4 is E2-E4.

STC (2nd ed.) 5069

English short title catalogue, S107198