The Value of Early Chaucer Editions
- Author / Editor
- Forni, Kathleen.
The Value of Early Chaucer Editions
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 70 (1998): 173-80.
- Description
- The black-letter editions of Chaucer from 1532 to 1721 are "valuable books with worthless texts." However, their financial value may give some indication of their readers and their readers' socioeconomic status.
- Argues that their selling price was not so high that it put them out of the reach of a wider readership; these editions were read by more than the very rich.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.