William Godwin's Diary

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Chaucer, Shipman, pp. 19 (24  November  1817) ‘The Shipman's Tale'
in Chaucer, GeoffreyThe Canterbury tales The earliest edition of Chaucer's Canterbury tales is Caxton's 1477-8 (from a poor manuscript); a better edition was published by Caxton in 1483.
For further information see annotation of WG's diary for 1800-09-08.

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