The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche
were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere.
_Cum priuilegio._ [Colophon] _Imprinted at London by Rycharde Kele,
dwellynge in Lombarde strete nere vnto the stockes market at the sygne
of the Egle. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum._
=B. L.= F^o. (12-1/4 × 8). C. 2.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: A^8B-V^6X^42A-3Q^6, folios
numbered. Double columns. Wanting 3Q 6 (? blank). Epistle
dedicatory to Henry VIII. Table of contents. Preliminary verses.
After the 'Canterbury Tales' is a half-title to 'The Romaút of the
Rose' within same border (sig. 2A 1). After the colophon appears a
Latin epitaph on Chaucer by Stephanus Surigonus. Copies of this
edition are also found bearing in the colophon the names of
'Wyllyam Bonham', 'Thomas Petit', and 'Robart Toye.' They are all
alike undated. Mr Hazlitt places it before the edition of 1542,
thus making it the second collected edition, and suggests the date
1538; Prof. Skeat and the BM catalogue place it after, making it
the third, which seems more likely, the former dating it 1550, the
latter 1545. The only dated book by Bonham, it may be remarked,
appeared in 1542. In any case it is a reprint of Thynne's text
first printed in 1532.
Sinker III. BM 367.