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Here begynneth the boke of fame made by Geffray Chaucer with dyuers other of his workes.

Title-page Attribution: As above
Imperfect, with leaves after sig. D2 wanting
With The assemble of foules, ‘The complaynt of Mary Magdaleyne’, and ‘La bele Dame sauns mercy’
Other Copies: 7 (Blackburn, British Library, Glasgow, Lambeth, Brotherton, Harvard, Yale Sterling)

1526

Auteur: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Titre: Here begynneth the boke of fame made by Geffray Chaucer with dyuers other of his workes.
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Imprinted at London in fletestrete by Richarde Pynson printer to the kynges most noble grace.
Date: 1526
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 45
Type: Print
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  • that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world? 
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