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Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English poet : including memoirs of his near friend and kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: with sketches of the manners, opinions, arts and literature of England in the fourteenth century

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Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English poet : including memoirs of his near friend and kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: with sketches of the manners, opinions, arts and literature of England in the fourteenth century, by William Godwin.

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Status	Vol/date	Format	Access	Call number	Item location
Status Request for on-site use Request scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Vol/datev. 2	FormatText	AccessUse in library	Call numberAN (Chaucer) (Godwin, W. Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English poet) v. 2	Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
Status Request appointment Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319	Vol/datev. 1-2	FormatText	AccessPermit needed	Call numberPforz+ (Godwin) v. 1-2	Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Vol/datev. 1-2	FormatText	AccessPermit needed	Call numberPforz+ (Godwin) v. 1-2	Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319
Status Request for on-site use Request scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Vol/datev. 1	FormatText	AccessUse in library	Call numberAN (Chaucer) (Godwin, W. Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English poet) v. 1	Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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2 v. (vol. I: xxxvi, 489, 1 l.; vol. II: vii, 642, [32] p.) plates (ports.); 27 cm.

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1st ed.
4to: vol. I: []², b-e⁴, B-Z⁴, AA-ZZ⁴, 3A-3Q⁴, 3R² [w/m: 1801]; vol. II: [a]⁴, B-Z⁴, AA-ZZ⁴, 3A-3Z⁴, 4A-4M⁴, 4N-4U², []¹ [w/m: 1801]
1 p. errata at end vol. 1 for both vols; index.

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Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English poet : including memoirs of his near friend and kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: with sketches of the manners, opinions, arts and literature of England in the fourteenth century, by William Godwin.

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Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

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Pforzheimer copy 1: Vol. I lacks i-ii. -- Extra signature UU bound in. -- Old brown half-sheep, gilt decorations and letters on spine, French shell boards, speckled edges. -- Book-plate of Sir Marcus Somerville; CHPL stamp on lower paste-downs; William Robinson, Newcastle, Oct. 1925. -- In blue linen case.
Pforzheimer copy 2: 1 plate not bound as directed. -- 2 1/2 pp. pencil notes by William Beckford at front of vols., Godwinana 23. -- Tan calf, extra gilt at back, green morocco lettering piece for vol. nos., gilt letters, covers diced with gilt rule borders, gilt rules on cover edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges. -- Earl of Rosebery book-plate; Sotheby 10/27-8/75 through Quaritch 12/19/75.

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