Here begynneth the boke of Caunterbury tales
Subtitle: dilygently and truely corrected, and newly printed
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- I-1
Publisher: In Fletestrete, by me Rycharde Pynson, printed unto the kynges noble grace ...
Published: 1526
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Work titles: Canterbury tales
Notes: Signatures: A-U⁶ X-Y⁴.

Imprint from colophon.

Woodcut illus. on t.-p. within border of ornamental panels; printer's mark (McK.35) on recto of last leaf.

The text of this edition is based on Pynson's first ed. ([1492?]), which had been corrected by comparison with a copy of Caxton's second ed. ([1484?]). Ten of the 18 woodcuts are from the blocks used in Pynson's first ed., 6 are copies & 2 are new (for full descriptions, see Hodnett).

This, his "The boke of fame" (STC 5088) & his "The boke of Troylus and Creseyde" (STC 5096), "may be called the first edition of Chaucer's works".--cf. STC (2nd ed.).

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STC (2nd ed.) 5086

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