Chaucer's Workes (1550)

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CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (c. 1340-1400)

The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed. London: Nicholas Hill for Robart Toye, 1550.

Chaucer's works, especially The Knight’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, were the sources for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Troilus & Cressida, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. (See Ann Thompson, Shakespeare’s Chaucer: A Study in Literary Origins [Liverpool University Press, 1978]).

Magnificent woodcut of The Knight's Tale. Fragmentary, lacking all before sig. B1. Upper-corner damage on B signature with some loss. Modern polished quarter-calf with red morroco label.

STC 5074

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CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (c. 1340-1400)

The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed. London: Nicholas Hill for Robart Toye, 1550.

Chaucer's works, especially The Knight’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, were the sources for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Troilus & Cressida, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. (See Ann Thompson, Shakespeare’s Chaucer: A Study in Literary Origins [Liverpool University Press, 1978]).

Magnificent woodcut of The Knight's Tale. Fragmentary, lacking all before sig. B1. Upper-corner damage on B signature with some loss. Modern polished quarter-calf with red morroco label.

STC 5074

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (c. 1340-1400)

The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed. London: Nicholas Hill for Robart Toye, 1550.

Chaucer's works, especially The Knight’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, were the sources for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Troilus & Cressida, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. (See Ann Thompson, Shakespeare’s Chaucer: A Study in Literary Origins [Liverpool University Press, 1978]).

Magnificent woodcut of The Knight's Tale. Fragmentary, lacking all before sig. B1. Upper-corner damage on B signature with some loss. Modern polished quarter-calf with red morroco label.

STC 5074