[Canterbury tales]
Contributors: Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, printer; Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
Publisher: William Caxton
Published: 1478
Place of publication: Westminster
Language: enm
Number of pages: 748
Subjects: Incunabula; Specimens; Printing
Notes: Title, place of publication, and printer from ISTC and Goff.  ISTC, BM 15th cent., and Bodleian Lib. 15th cent. give date as: ca. 1476-1477;  Duff, Goff, and GW give date as: ca. 1478.

"The first edition, printed from a manuscript, in the subsequent edition condemned by Caxton as containing an imperfect version of the text"--BM 15th cent., q.v. for a detailed description of the differences between the two editions.

Signatures: [a-z⁸ A-I⁸ K¹⁰ L-Q⁸ R⁶ S-Z⁸ aa⁶ ([a]1, [K]10, [aa]6 blank)]

Rare Book copy: Imperfect, wanting all but a single leaf ([2] p. ; 25 x 17 cm.) containing the end of the frankeleyn's tale and beginning of the second nun's tale.

Rare Book copy: Typed slip laid in relates this leaf to Robert Hoe and has date New York, April 29, 1901.

29 lines.  Type 2: 135B.  Initial spaces with guide-letters.

Some rubrication (rubricated).

Duff, 87

BM 15th cent., 11, p. 103 (167.c.26 (IB.55009))

Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., C-172 (fragment)

English short title catalogue, S109814

STC, 5082

Goff, C-431

GW, 6585

DeRicci, S. Census of Caxtons, 22

Wormsley Lib., 16

ISTC, ic00431000

Hain-Copinger, 4921

Proctor, 9626

Rhodes. Oxford Colleges, 537

Blades, W. Wm. Caxton, 1882 10

Pierpont Morgan. 15th cent. printing, 1762