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CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Works . . . compared with the Former Editions, and many valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before printed. Edited by John Urry. Engraved text illustrations of the tellers of the various Canterbury Tales. [56], 626, 81, [1] pages, including 2 engraved portraits of Chaucer and Urry. Folio, 387x248 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked at an early date, heavily worn; contents browned, front endleaves creased and loose, rust hole in 5D1 affecting a couple of letters, narrow wormhole through several index leaves not impairing legibility. London: Bernard Lintot, 1721
first urry edition. "The text of Urry's edition has often been criticized by subsequent editors for its frequent conjectural emendations, mainly to make it conform to his sense of Chaucer's metre. The justice of such criticisms should not obscure his achievement. His is the first edition of Chaucer for nearly a hundred and fifty years to consult any manuscripts and is the first since that of William Thynne in 1534 to seek systematically to assemble a substantial number of manuscripts to establish his text. It is also the first edition to offer descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works, and the first to print texts of 'Gamelyn' and 'The Tale of Beryn', works ascribed to, but not by, Chaucer" (ODNB).
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