on Allegorical Poetry, by Mr. Hughes. Volume the First [-Sixth].
London: Printed for
J. and R. Tonson and
S. Draper,
mdccl.
[1750.]
6 vol. 12mo, 150, 180, 156, 156, 144 and 156 leaves, engraved portrait of Spenser as frontispiece to Vol. I, and engraved plate of his tombstone at the end of his Life in that volume. The title of Volume
I reads as above, the titles of the remaining volumes read merely
The Works of Spenser, with the volume number and imprint.
Edmund Spenser, 1552?-1599, English poet. The first collected edition of his poems was published for Matthews Lownes in 1611.
John Hughes, 1677-1720, English poet and dramatist, was the first to publish an annotated edition of the works of Spenser. His first
edition appeared in 1715.
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Chaucer.
fol. in a black letter.
1815 Catalogue, page 137, no. 72, as above, but omitting
a.
CHAUCER,
Geoffrey.
The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chavcer, newly Printed. In this Impression you shall find these Additions. 1 His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2 His Life
collected. 3 Arguments to euery Booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared.
6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two Bookes of his, neuer before Printed.
London: Printed by
Adam Islip, at the charges of
Bonham Norton, Anno
1598.
PR1850 1598
Folio. 430 leaves, printed in black letter, text in double columns; title within a woodcut border, 2 cherubs holding cornucopias
at the top and a quotation from Chaucer in 4 lines in a oval compartment, termini at the sides, at the bottom David and Samson and a line from Ovid in an oblong
compartment (McKerrow and Ferguson 132); Dedication by Tho. Speght to Sir Robert Cecil, 1 page, printed in roman letter with a woodcut initial; To the Readers, 2 pages in italic letter, F.B.
to his very louing friend T.S. [Francis Beaumont to Thomas Speght], 3 pages; The Reader to Geffrey Chaucer, signed H.B., 1 page; full-page engraving showing The Progenie of Geffrey Chaucer, with a full-length portrait (the first engraved portrait of Chaucer) by Thomas Occleue; the Life of Chaucer and other preliminary matter, 16 leaves, followed by the title for The Canterbvry Tales within the woodcut border showing
the descent of Henry VIII (see no. 4276; McKerrow and Ferguson 75) repeated for the title of The Story of Thebes: compiled by Iohn Lidgate, Monke of Bvry on sig.
Ttt
v, (Fol. 369), continuous signatures and foliation; full-page woodcut arms on the verso of the last leaf of the Prologues,
and of a Knight at the head of the Knightes tale.
Lowndes I, 425.
STC 5078.
Hazlitt I, 82, and
Handbook 97.
Grolier Club,
Catalogue of Original and Early Editions, 1893, no. 43, [punct.
sic.--
Ed.]
Pforzheinmer Catalogue no. 177.
Hammond, page 122.
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1340?-1400, English poet. The date of his birth is usually given as 1340? though in this edition Thomas Speght, the editor,
states in Chaucers Life at the beginning (c
i verso): “Geffrey Chaucer departed out of this world the 25. day of October, in the yeere of our Lord 1400. after he had liued
about 72. yeeres.” The first complete edition of his works was published in 1532. Of this edition of 1598 there were 5 issues
with varying imprints. The one described here is the copy in the Library of Congress; it is not certain which issue was in
Jefferson’s library.
John Lydgate, 1370?-1451?, English poet, wrote the Story of Thebes as an additional Canterbury Tale. It was first published separately
by Wynkyn de Worde, and was appended to the 1561 and later editions of Chaucer’s works.
Thomas Speght, fl. 1600, English schoolmaster, now chiefly known for his editions of Chaucer’s works, of which this of 1598 was his first.
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Chaucer. by Urry.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 137, no. 73, as above, but reading
Urrie.
CHAUCER,
Geoffrey.
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the Former Editions, and many valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never
