William Caxton's First Edition of the Canterbury Tales and the Origin of the Leaves for the Caxton Club's 1905 Leaf Book
- Author / Editor
- Mosser, Daniel W.
William Caxton's First Edition of the Canterbury Tales and the Origin of the Leaves for the Caxton Club's 1905 Leaf Book
- Published
- Christopher de Hamel and Joel Silver, with contributions by John P. Chalmers, Daniel W. Mosser, and Michael Thompson. Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered (Chicago, Ill.: Caxton Club, 2005), pp. 24-51.
- Description
- A portion of a copy of Caxton's first edition of CT was "harvested" to make a run of "leaf books" for the Caxton Club. Mosser describes the project, the known portions of the dismembered book, the known copies of Caxton's first edition, collectors' efforts to reconstruct a "perfect" version of Caxton's original, and the codicological implications of such efforts. Includes two appendices.
- Contributor
- de Hamel, Christopher, ed.
- Silver, Joel, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.