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CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed. [5] (of [8]), 304 [i. e., 351] leaves; lacks A1-2 (general title, dedication, beginning of tables), A8 (end of Prologues), 2A1 (title to The Romau[n]t of the Rose), and final blank. Printed in black letter. Folio, 289x190 mm, 19th-century vellum with morocco lettering piece; contents soiled and dampstained, lower outer corner of H4 torn and restored with text supplied in oxidized manuscript, last leaf crudely reinforced in lower margin on verso obscuring the colophon. [London: Nicholas Hill for] (Rycharde Kele), circa 1550?
One of 4 variants of an undated mid-16th-century edition published jointly by 4 booksellers. Pforzheimer 174-75 (issues with Richard Petit and Robert Toye named in the colophon, respectively); STC 5072.
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