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The Workes

Lot 20
06.10.2022 12:00UTC -05:00
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$ 12 600
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 813714
Lot 20 | The Workes
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$ 4 000 – 6 000
The Workes

Geoffrey Chaucer, 1602

CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400). The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed. Edited by Thomas Speght. London: Adam Islip, 1602.



The second Speght edition, which helped establish Chaucer in the canon of English literature. "This edition ... is the earliest in which thorough punctuation was attempted, and in many other ways it is a distinct improvement upon Speght's first edition” (Pforzheimer). With the addition of a glossary, sources list, and new biography of the poet, this work shaped the reading of Chaucer for the next several centuries. It marks the first time a Middle English writer had been given the critical treatment usually reserved for works from antiquity. Pforzheimer 178; STC (2nd ed.), 5080.



Folio (325 x 215mm). Title in woodcut border, full-page engraving of Chaucer signed by John Speed, woodcut illustrations of a knight and several armorials (occasional dustsoiling). Contemporary English paneled calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed).

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