Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Works . . . compared with the Former Editions, and many valuable MSS. 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 Urry and Chaucer. Folio, 390x240 mm, 18th-century sheep, rebacked, covers worn and starting; occasional marginal foxing, light dampstaining in upper outer corners through first half of volume, offsetting from portraits onto facing pages. London: Bernard Lintot, 1721

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first urry edition, ordinary paper issue. "Urry's edition . . . 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).