02272nam 2200457 n 450 99639503020331620200824120723.0(CKB)3810000000010575(EEBO)2240875688(UnM)99842910e(UnM)99842910(EXLCZ)99381000000001057519910531d1598 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|The workes of our antient and lerned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed[electronic resource] 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 printedLondini [Printed by Adam Islip] impensis Geor. BishopAnno. 1598[29], 394, [14] leaves, plate ill., portEditor's dedication signed: Tho. Speght.Includes "The siege of Thebes" by John Lydgate. Contains many works not by Chaucer.Mostly in verse."The Canterbury tales", "The romaunt of the rose", and "The story of Thebes" have divisional titles; foliation and register are continuous.With an errata leaf whose position may vary; placed in preliminaries in foliation above.The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.The plate has heading "The progenie of Geffrey Chaucer" and is signed: IS, i.e. John Speed.A variant of the edition with Adam Islip's name in the imprint.Title within ornamental border (McK. & Ferg. 148).Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.eebo-0113Chaucer Geoffreyd. 1400.165781Speght Thomasfl. 1600.1007360Lydgate John1370?-1451?196699Speed John1552?-1629,Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996395030203316The workes of our antient and lerned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed2320544UNISA