Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet..., by Adam Islip, 1598 & …

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet...newly Printed, black letter, double column, lacking title (supplied in facsimile) and all before A2 (preliminaries), also lacking A5-6, signature P, 2K6, 2V3, 3Z3-4 and all after 3Z6 (glossary etc.), with woodcut initials, divisional titles to 'Romaunt of the Rose' & 'Siege of Thebes' and illustration at head of Knights Tale, contemporary and old ink signatures of Richard Allen, Barbara Aston and Thomas Add and a few marginalia/pen trials, some light soiling and marginal staining, title to 'Romaunt of the Rose' with portion torn away from outer margin just touching edge of woodcut border, a few other marginal tears and defects, later half russia, spine gilt, rubbed, joints split, corners worn, [STC 5078; cf.Pforzheimer 177, variant printing], by Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598; and a copy of Milton's Paradise Lost of 1692 lacking portrait and some plates, folio; sold not subject to return (2)⁂ The sixth edition and the first by Thomas Speght which would become the preferred edition over the following centuries.