The English Short Title Catalogue lists six variants for CANTERBURY TALES: COMPOSED For the Entertainment of All Ingenuous young Men and Maids by Chaucer Junior but there are significant differences in at least four of them. I have only seen those printed by Howard and Evans, J. Black, T. Norris, and the one printed and sold in Aldermary Churchyard. They have considerable differences both in the tales and jests that are included and within the tales and jests themselves that are repeated. How many time this chapbook was reprinted and how many copies were printed during the 130 years it was in print is unknown but The English Short Title Catalogue lists only seven copies. They are in collections at:
College (University of Cambridge) Library.
King’s College London Library, University of London
Oxford University, Bodleian Library
These copies are listed as being printed by:
J. Black at the Black Boy near the Draw-Bridge on London-Bridge, 1687.
Printed and sold in London, [1770?]
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770-1790?]
Howard & Evans, [1810?]