Canterbury Tales (2nd): Edition Description
Summary:
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Title: The Canterbury Tales
- Place: [Westminster]
- Printer/Publisher: Caxton, William
- Date: [1483]
- Edition / Issue: 2nd edn
- Main Language: English
- Contents:
- The General Prologue;
- Knight's Tale;
- Miller's Tale;
- Reeve's Tale;
- Cook's Tale;
- Man of Law's Tale;
- Merchant's Tale;
- Squire's Tale;
- Franklin's Tale;
- Wife of Bath's Tale;
- Friar's Tale;
- Summoner's Tale;
- Clerk's Tale;
- Lenvoy de Chaucer;
- Words of the Host;
- Pardoner's Tale;
- Shipman's Tale;
- Words of the Host;
- Prioress's Tale;
- Sir Thopas's Tale;
- Words of the Host;
- Melibeus's Tale;
- Monk's Tale;
- Parson's Tale
- Item
1: Caxton's Proheyme
[2r-v]
Incipit: Proheyme Grete thankes lawdes and honour ought to be gyuen vnto the clerkes / poetes / and historiographs that haue wreton many noble bokes of wysedom... Of your charyte emond your dedes of mercy / remembre the sowle of the sayd Geoffrey chaucer first auctour and maker of thys book
- Item
2: Canterbury Tales
[3r-311r]
Incipit: wHan that Apryll wyth hys shouris sote | The droughte of marche hath percyD the rote | AnD bathyD euery veyne in suche lycour | Of whyche vertue engendryD is the flour ...
Note: The tale order in this edition is as follows (see the tale order of Caxton's first edition):
- Item
3: Chaucer's Retraction
[311v]
Incipit: ... Thys blessyd regne may man purchace by pouerte spirituel and the glorye by lownesse the plene of loye by hunger and thirst
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Format: F°
Ideal collation: a-t8 v6 aa-hh8 ii6 A-K8 L6. 314 leaves, 1 , 313, 314 blank.
Signatures: Signed to the fold with letter and roman numeral.
Layout description:
- Columns: 1
- Written Lines: 38
- Locus: All
- Overview: With head-lines
- Layout:
Type:
- Number of types: 2
- Type: 2:135 B*
- Description: Headlines and colophon
- Type: 4:95 (100) B*
- Description: Text
Decoration Description:
Initials: Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Woodcut Illustration: 23 woodcuts, 24 repeats (47 total).
Printer's Device: No printer's device.
Colour Printing: None.
List of Copies:
- Copies
Bibliography:
- BMC XI,
131
- Cx,
55
- DeR(C),
23
- Duff(R),
88
- ISTC,
ic00432000
- (R)STC,
5083
Administration Information:
- Initial data entry by Caroline Bardell and Jamil Teja (Feb 2014). Updated by Lauren MacDougall, 03/04/2015, 15/05/2015.