The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501-1557, 2 vols.
- Author/Editor
- Blayney. Peter W. M.
- Title
- The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501-1557, 2 vols.
- Published
- Cambridge UP, 2013.
- Review
- Volume 1, pp. 279-80, discusses Thomas Berthelet's 1532 edition of the CA, finding "reason to consider the Gower and Chaucer (i.e., Thomas Godfray's edition of Thynne's "Works of Geoffrey Chaucer") as companion volumes" (279), citing John Leland's belief that the Chaucer was Berthelet's production. Blayney describes Berthelet's loan to Godfray of "at least four initials and the woodcut border" used in the Chaucer (279). "It is," he notes, "therefore reasonable to suspect that Berthelet may have had a stake in this edition, though whether as a major or minor shareholder is a matter for guesswork only" (280). Blayney establishes that this border design passed about among printers, appearing in books produced by Pynson and Redman, as well as Godfray and Berthelet, the latter using it "at least five times in 1533-5 before lending it again for Godfray's (dated) folio New Testament of 1536" (280), further strengthening the collaboration of the two printers--an idea also accepted by E. Gordon Duff and Andrew W. Wawn, the latter in his essay on The Plowman's Tale (280). [RFY. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 40.2.]
- Date
- 2013
- Gower Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
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