The Court of Love, a Vision from Chaucer

Book Description

Oxford: Printed at the Theater for Anthony Peisley [et al.], 1717. 32pp., 8vo. Small area of black scribble in the title gutter (Eric Quayle attempting to obliterate an old Penzance Library inkstamp), but a nice copy in modern calf-backed boards. With Eric Quayle’s book-label on front pastedown, and some pencilled notes (e.g., “Rare!”). First edition of this modern version of a pseudo-Chaucerian poem which first appeared in John Stow’s 1561 edition, written in what has been called “Drydenian” heroic couplets. Hammond, Chaucer: a Bibliographical Manual, pp. 418-419; Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750, C69, noting only British Library and Bodley outside North America, to which ESTC now adds Brotherton and Newcastle.

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