In Search of Stow's Chaucer

Author / Editor
Dane, Joseph A.

Title
In Search of Stow's Chaucer

Published
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library), pp. 145-55.

Description
Traces Stow's declining reputation among eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editors of Chaucer as well as a gradual revival of appreciation of Stow's edition, first among bibliophiles and later with modern Chaucerians. Dane examines the variants in imprints of Stow's edition and how these variants are cataloged in the STC. Includes facsimiles of two different title pages from the 1561 edition.

Alternative Title
John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.