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THYNNE, FRANCIS; FURNIVALL, F.J. (ED.); KINGSLEY, G.H. (ED.) - Francis Thynne's Animadversions Upon Speght's First (1598 AD) Edition of Chaucers Workes

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1898, Reprint. hardcover. Used, Early English Text Society Original Series, no. 9: "now newly edited from the ms. in the Bridgewater Library, with fresh collections for the lives of William Thynne, the Chacuer editor, and Francis Thynne, his son, and a reprint of the only known fragment of 'The Pilgrim's Tale', by F.J. Furnivall, and a preface by G.H. Kingsley." First printing thus 1865; reprinted 1891, 1898. Blue cloth boards show minor wear, bumped at corners. Ex-library: label and class no. on spine; bookplate and label on pastedown; return slip on BEP; ink stamp on title. Endpapers slightly age-faded. Contents otherwise clean and sound throughout. cxliv pages prefatory matter: Kingley's lives of the Thynnes; Mark Nobel's account of Francis Thynne; more on the Thynnes by Furnivall, including lives, a list of Francis Thynne's works, notes on spurious attributions and extracts of these. 171 pages follwing include Thynne's 'Animadversions' itself, plus appendices: 'The Pilgrims Tale'; 'The Legitimation of John of Gaunt's Children, by Katherine Swynford; the prologue to the spurious 'Plowman's Tale'; Thynne's 'Dyscourse Uppon Ye Crete of the Lorde Burghleyghe'; 'Prophecies by Welsmen'; Chaucer's 'Complaint on Parting From His Wife, When he Went on Embassy to France'; an extract from the Douce fragment of the 'Courte of Venus'. Plus notes and index. Good/No Dust Jacket.
GBP 24.84 [Appr.: EURO 28.75 US$ 33.34 | JP¥ 4944] Book number 207876

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