The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are added, An essay upon his Language and Versification; an Introductory Discourse; and Notes. Vol. IV

Geoffrey Chaucer

Book

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are added, An essay upon his Language and Versification; an Introductory Discourse; and Notes. Vol. IV

Geoffrey Chaucer

1775

362 pages

Fourth of 5 volumes in 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [v], vi-vii, [i], 336, ff. [2] (blank). Calf. Gilt tooled spine. Marbled endpapers. Plate of Henry Latham, M.A. Some marginalia. Part (vols.1-4) printed by William Bowyer and John Nichols; their records show 750 copies printed. Vol. 5 printed by Nichols alone, after Bowyer’s death. Edmond Malone’s copy, with his manuscript notes at I, p. vi, ix, and xxvi; IV, p. 87, 161, 204, 243, and 288; and V, p. 138. Later ownership inscription of James Boaden (1818), who corrected the errata throughout, and bookplates of Henry Latham. In the present volume, p. 87 (1775) Tyrwhitt takes ‘Rowley’ at face value, as a poet of the reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV who ‘wrote [...] with an uncommon harmony of numbers.’ Malone comments that ‘Mr Tyrwhitt was afterwards convinced that the poems published by Thomas Chatterton under the name of Rowley were forgeries.’ See also ESTC, T76319. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039124769707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>