The boke of the Tales of Canterburie ...
By: diligently ouirsen & duely examined by ... my worshipful master William Caxton accordinge to the entent and effecte of the seid Geffrey Chaucer ...
Contributors: Pynson, Richard, -1530, printer; J. & J. Leighton
Publisher: By Richard Pynson
Published: 1491
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Other titles: Book of the Tales of Canterbury; Grete thankes laude and honoure ought to be yevyn vnto the clerkes poetes and historiagraphs that haue writen many noble bokes of wisdom ...; Whan that Aprille with his showres sote ...
Work titles: Canterbury tales
Notes: Title extracted from introductory prohemye (lines 25-31) on a1r.

Name of printer given at end of introductory prohemye on a1v. Place and date supplied from ISTC. On the dating, see BM 15th cent.

Based on Caxton's second edition of [1483] although the "proem is somewhat confusedly adapted from Caxton's, with numerous alterations of orthography, rewordings, transpositions, and omissions"; it is inferred that Pynson printed his edition from a copy of Caxton's second, "in which certain readings had been introduced from an unknown manuscript"--BM 15th cent.

With woodcut illustrations throughout: 21 different woodcuts with 26 repeats, based on those in Caxton's second edition.

Signatures: a-v́ı 2a-ḱı 2ĺœ A-Íı Ḱœ (K6 is blank).

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Woodcut printer's device on K5v.

ESTC S108831

ISTC ic00433000

Goff, C433

BM 15th cent., XI, p. 264

Bodleian 15th cent., C-173

GW, 6587

STC (2nd ed.), 5084

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by the Leighton firm in modern brown morocco panelled and tooled in blind. The spine is tooled in blind and stamped in gilt. All text block edges are gilt. Leaves a1, a2, and I8 are supplied in facsimile. Leaves a8, d1, t4, F3, F6, and I8 have been supplied from another copy or copies. K6 (blank) is wanting. Early marginalia, in various hands, is present throughout.