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Here begynneth the boke of Caunter-bury tales dilygently and truely corrected and newly printed.

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1526

Auteur: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Titre: Here begynneth the boke of Caunter-bury tales dilygently and truely corrected and newly printed.
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Thus endeth the boke of Caunterbury tales. Imprinted at London in flete-strete by me Rycharde Pynson printer vnto the kynges noble grace: and fynisshed the yere of our lorde god a.M.CCCCC. and .xxvi. the fourth day of June.
Date: 1526
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 269
Type: Print
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  • that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world? 
  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
  • that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
  • that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
  • more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?