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Caxton's Canterbury Tales: The British Library Copies on CD-Rom Images and Text of British Library 167.c.26 (IB.55009; the Royal Copy of the first edition) and C.21.d (IB 55095; the Grenville Copy of the second edition) Edited by Barbara Bordalejo 
This CD-Rom contains the first ever full-colour facsimiles of these copies of William Caxton's first and second editions of the Canterbury Tales, and the first electronic publication of any copy of the Caxton editions. These manuscripts are crucial both to the history of printing - the first edition, published in around 1476, is probably the first book ever printed in England - and in the history of Chaucer's text (the second edition took readings from a now-lost manuscript which research suggests was the equal of any now surviving). Images of the text of each page may be compared directly, and a word-by-word collation of the two texts shows exactly how they differ. |
DETAILS Size: 0 x 0 10 digit ISBN: 1904628036 13 digit ISBN: 9781904628033 Binding: Hardback First published: 20/Nov/2003 Price: 80.00 USD / 40.00 GBP (excluding VAT) Imprint: Scholarly Digital Editions Series: Scholarly Digital Editions Subject: Medieval Literature BIC class: CSBH STATUS: Available Details updated on 07/10/2008 | |||||||
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