Bibliographical History Versus Bibliographical Evidence: The Plowman's Tale and Early Chaucer Editions

Author / Editor
Dane, Joseph A.

Title
Bibliographical History Versus Bibliographical Evidence: The Plowman's Tale and Early Chaucer Editions

Published
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78 (1996): 47-61.

Description
Assesses Francis Thynne's references to the "Plowman's Tale" and the "Pilgrim's Tale" in the "Animadversions" on Speght's edition of Chaucer, concluding that no sixteenth-century printer tried to pass off the latter as Chaucer's. Although the "Plowman's Tale" was consistently in the hands of Chaucer's printers, his association with the "Pilgrim's Tale" is a "bibliographical fantasy."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Plowman and the Tale