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Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed. London: Printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598.
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Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Ge∂rey Chaucer, Newly Printed.
London: Printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598.
Acquired through the Herbert A. Klein and the Antoinette and Warren R. Howell Funds.
This is the sixth collected edition of Chaucer's works, the first issued by Thomas Speght. It is the first edition to include a life of Chaucer and the first to include a glossary of "hard words," a glossary that features a guide to some of the French words used. For his editing, Speght relied on the scholarship of and the notes collected by his friend John Stow, one of the greatest of all English antiquaries and the editor of the 1561 edition of Chaucer's works.
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