The Canterbury tales of Chaucer, : completed in a modern version
Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Thomas Betterton (Translator), Samuel Boyse (Translator), Henry Brooke (Translator), Joshua Cooke (Publisher), John Dryden (Translator), Grosvenor (Translator), William Lipscomb (Editor), Jeremiah Markland (Translator), George Ogle (Translator), Alexander Pope (Translator), Thomas Tyrwhitt (Writer of added commentary), G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England) (Publisher)
Print Book, English, MDCCXCV. [1795]
Printed for J. Cooke; and G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London., Oxford:, MDCCXCV. [1795]
Poetry
3 v. (xiv, 289, [1]; iv, 312; iv, 389, [3] p.) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
10351521
Vol. I. Life of Chaucer / by Mr. Tyrwhitt
Introductory discourse / by the same
Prologue to the tales / by Mr. Ogle
The knight ; The squire ; The squire's yeoman ; The prioress ; The monk ; The fryar ; The merchant / by Mr. Betterton
Prologue to The knight's tale / by Mr. Ogle
Palamon and Arcite: or, The knight's tale / by Mr. Dryden. Vol. II. Prologue to The cook's tale / by Mr. Ogle
The cook's tale / by Mr. Boyse
Prologue to The man of law's tale / by Mr. Ogle
Constantia: or, The man of law's tale / by Mr. Brooke
Prologue to The wife of Bath's tale / by Mr. Pope
The desire of woman: or, The wife of Bath's tale / by Mr. Dryden
Prologue to The fryar's tale / by Mr. Ogle
The sumner and the Devil: or, The fryar's tale / by Mr. Markland
The farmer and the fryar: or, The sumner's tale / by Mr. Grosvenor
Prologue to The clerk of Oxford's tale ; Gualtherus and Griselda: or, The clerk of Oxford's tale ; Prologue to The merchant's tale / by Mr. Ogle
January and May: or, The merchant's tale / by Mr. Pope. Vol. III. Prologue to The squire's tale / by the Rev. William Lipscomb
Cambuscan: or, The squire's tale / by Mr. Boyse
Prologue to The franklein's tale ; The franklein's tale ; Prologue to The doctor's tale ; The doctor's tale ; Prologue to The pardoner's tale ; The pardoner's tale ; Prologue to The shipman's tale ; The shipman's tale ; Prologue to The prioress's tale ; The prioress's tale ; Prologue to Sir Thopas ; The rhime of Sir Thopas ; Prologue to Melibeus ; The tale of Melibeus ; Prologue to The monk's tale ; The monk's tale ; Prologue to The nun's priest's tale ; The nun's priest's tale ; The second nun's tale ; Prologue to The canon's yeoman's tale ; The canon's yeoman's tale ; Prologue to The manciple's tale ; The manciple's tale / by the Rev. William Lipscomb
Translations and adaptations, chiefly in verse
Edited by William Lipscomb
"Preface" initialed: W.L
Signatures: v.1: [A]⁸( -A8) B-T⁸(T8+1(=A8?)); v.2:[A]² B-U⁸ X⁴; v.3: [A]² B-2B⁸ 2C⁴
"In three volumes."
Mispagination: vol. 1 iv as xiv
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"Errata. Vol. III.": Vol. 3, p. [391]
Excluded are The parson's tale, The miller's tale, and The reeve's tale