Caxton's Chaucer and Lydgate Quartos : Miscellanies from Manuscript to Print
- Author / Editor
- Gillespie, Alexandra.
Caxton's Chaucer and Lydgate Quartos : Miscellanies from Manuscript to Print
- Published
- Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 12.1: 1-26, 2000.
- Description
- Considers 11 Caxton quarto editions of English verse (STC 17019, 17009, 17030, 1450, 17008, 17018, 17032, 4851, 5091, 5090, and 3303) that include works by Lydgate and Caxton, assessing the economy of their production and their provenances and comparing them with related manuscripts, Sammelbände, and booklets. Caxton sought to provide inexpensive poetry, and he printed the "component parts" of the first English poetic miscellanies. English manuscript trade and continental models influenced his decisions to produce these quartos.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.