Chaucer, Geoffrey[The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newly Printed, with Dyers Works Whiche Were Neuer in Print Before: As in the Table More Playnly Dothe Appere. Edited by William Thynne. London: Printed.…..by Thomas Godfray, 1532]
Folio (297 x 205 mm). Black letter. Forty-eight lines plus headline, double columns. Several sets of decorated initials and lombards used as initials, a few capital spaces with guides. Fifteen woodcuts in the Canterbury Tales, three repeated, one three times, a total of twenty impressions. 383 (of 397) leaves, plus an additional leaf (Qq7) containing compartment for divisional title on recto (122), xili-CCxix, [4], CCxx-CCC, CCC-CCCIxxxili leaves); with fourteen leaves, including title, in facsimile [A1-A4, B1, I4, Qq4, Qq5, Qq7, and Vvv2-Vvv6], a few edge tears, stray stains, a few early ink annotations. Bound by Rivière & Son in full brown morocco, covers decoratively paneled in blind, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments and decoratively tooled in blind in the remaining four, board edges and turn-ins ruled in blind, all edges gilt. In a full brown morocco clamshell; one joint split.
First complete collected edition of Chaucer and the first attempt to collect into a single volume the complete writings of an English author. Putting aside Pynson's three separate publications of ca. 1526, Godfray's publication "was the first attempt at a critical edition and for over 200 years provided the standard text of The Canterbury Tales" (Hayward). It was edited by William Thynne, clerk of the kitchen and of the green cloth to Henry VIII, and recipient of numerous grants and appointments. His dedication to Henry VIII (actually written by Sir Brian Tuke) is noteworthy for its remarks on the development of language and on the editor's collection of printed and manuscript works of Chaucer. As the Pforzheimer catalogue remarks, Thynne's enthusiasm may have outstripped his critical capacity, since more than half of the poems he included were spuriously attributed to Chaucer—giving this work a claim to the title of the earliest English poetical miscellany. Only The Canterbury Tales is illustrated: the cuts of the Knight and Squire are copies from Pynson's 1526 edition (Hodnett 2066, 2067), while the remaining thirteen were cut for Caxton's 1483 edition (Hodnett 214–236).
REFERENCE:STC 5068; ESTC S106664; Grolier/Langland to Wither 28; Hayward 2; Pforzheimer 173Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey[The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newly Printed, with Dyers Works Whiche Were Neuer in Print Before: As in the Table More Playnly Dothe Appere. Edited by William Thynne. London: Printed.…..by Thomas Godfray, 1532]
Folio (297 x 205 mm). Black letter. Forty-eight lines plus headline, double columns. Several sets of decorated initials and lombards used as initials, a few capital spaces with guides. Fifteen woodcuts in the Canterbury Tales, three repeated, one three times, a total of twenty impressions. 383 (of 397) leaves, plus an additional leaf (Qq7) containing compartment for divisional title on recto (122), xili-CCxix, [4], CCxx-CCC, CCC-CCCIxxxili leaves); with fourteen leaves, including title, in facsimile [A1-A4, B1, I4, Qq4, Qq5, Qq7, and Vvv2-Vvv6], a few edge tears, stray stains, a few early ink annotations. Bound by Rivière & Son in full brown morocco, covers decoratively paneled in blind, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments and decoratively tooled in blind in the remaining four, board edges and turn-ins ruled in blind, all edges gilt. In a full brown morocco clamshell; one joint split.
First complete collected edition of Chaucer and the first attempt to collect into a single volume the complete writings of an English author. Putting aside Pynson's three separate publications of ca. 1526, Godfray's publication "was the first attempt at a critical edition and for over 200 years provided the standard text of The Canterbury Tales" (Hayward). It was edited by William Thynne, clerk of the kitchen and of the green cloth to Henry VIII, and recipient of numerous grants and appointments. His dedication to Henry VIII (actually written by Sir Brian Tuke) is noteworthy for its remarks on the development of language and on the editor's collection of printed and manuscript works of Chaucer. As the Pforzheimer catalogue remarks, Thynne's enthusiasm may have outstripped his critical capacity, since more than half of the poems he included were spuriously attributed to Chaucer—giving this work a claim to the title of the earliest English poetical miscellany. Only The Canterbury Tales is illustrated: the cuts of the Knight and Squire are copies from Pynson's 1526 edition (Hodnett 2066, 2067), while the remaining thirteen were cut for Caxton's 1483 edition (Hodnett 214–236).
REFERENCE:STC 5068; ESTC S106664; Grolier/Langland to Wither 28; Hayward 2; Pforzheimer 173Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.
The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The condition report is provided to assist you with assessing the condition of the lot and is for guidance only. Any reference to condition in the condition report for the lot does not amount to a full description of condition. The images of the lot form part of the condition report for the lot. Certain images of the lot provided online may not accurately reflect the actual condition of the lot. In particular, the online images may represent colors and shades which are different to the lot's actual color and shades. The condition report for the lot may make reference to particular imperfections of the lot but you should note that the lot may have other faults not expressly referred to in the condition report for the lot or shown in the online images of the lot. The condition report may not refer to all faults, restoration, alteration or adaptation. The condition report is a statement of opinion only. For that reason, the condition report is not an alternative to taking your own professional advice regarding the condition of the lot. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS ONLINE CONDITION REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE/BUSINESS APPLICABLE TO THE RESPECTIVE SALE.
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