Beschreibung:

Chaucer, Geoffrey [THE WOORKES OF GEFFREY CHAUCER, NEWLY PRINTED, WITH DIUERS ADDICIONS, WHICHE WERE NEUER IN PRINTE BEFORE: WITH THE SIEGE AND DESTRUCCION OF THE WORTHY CITEE OF THEBES, COMPILED BY IHON LIDGATE, MONKE OF BERIE...] JHON KYNGSTON FOR JHON WIGHT, 1561 folio (303 x 219mm.), edited by John Stowe, issue without illustrations in the preliminary leaves, double columns, general title with large woodcut of Chaucer's arms with text in roman (but probably a later facsimile), 'Caunterburie Tales' and 'Romaunt of the Rose' titles within woodcut borders (McKerrow and Ferguson 75), woodcut illustration for The Knight's Tale (leaf B1, first used in the 1550 edition), woodcut initials, late nineteenth-century black morocco decorated in blind, spine in six compartments lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, a few lines of later manuscript notes on U6 verso (end of The Parson's Tale), general title probably a later facsimile, final leaf of Preliminaries (Eight goodlie questions, and To the kings moste noble grace) supplied in expert pen facsimile, first three leaves of Preliminaries possibly supplied (two of them repaired at lower corners with some words supplied in expert facsimile), title page for Canterbury Tales extended (the first with some slight tears at edges, the second with neat repairs to margins), upper margins cut close in first few gatherings, a few other small marginal tears or tiny holes and some staining in the first two gatherings, some slight browning to margins of later leaves, minor tear to lower edge of 3P4, binding with some rubbing at extremities