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(CAXTON, WILLIAM.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. Single leaf from the first edition of the Canterbury Tales. 234x185 mm. [Westminster: William Caxton, circa
(CAXTON, WILLIAM.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. Single leaf from the first edition of the Canterbury Tales. 234x185 mm. [Westminster: William Caxton, circa 1478]
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Notes: Leaf from the Ashburnham copy containing 58 lines from the Merchant's Tale, beginning "To do him disport he is a gentilman" and ending "That alle ye go to se this damyan."
The leaf is laid into: Duff, E. Gordon Duff. William Caxton. 4to, original cloth-backed boards. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1905. one of 148 copies with an Ashburnham leaf, of an edition of 252.
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