Caxton and His Readers: Histories of Book Use in a Copy of The Canterbury Tales (c. 1483).
- Author / Editor
- Singh, Devani.
Caxton and His Readers: Histories of Book Use in a Copy of The Canterbury Tales (c. 1483).
- Published
- Journal of the Early Book Society 20 (2017): 233-49.
- Description
- Analyzes the "marginalia, damages, repairs, signatures, and bindings" of the copy of William Caxton's second edition of CT (Foundation Martin Bodmer, Cologny, Switzerland, Inc, B. 70) as signs of the ways it has been used and regarded historically, with attention to the "shifting attitudes" towards Caxton editions and incunabula.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Canterbury Tales--General