_____. Chaucer Junior–Canterbury tales composed for the entertainment of all ingenious young men and maids

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

Pierpont Morgan Library

New York Public 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 by William Dicey and Company in Bow Church-Yard: sold also at their Warehouse in Northampton, [between ca. 1730 and 1760?]

Printed by and for T. Norris, at the Looking glass on London Bridge and sold by S. Bates, in Giltspur-street, [1720?]

Printed and sold in London, [1770?]

Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770-1790?]

Howard & Evans, [1810?]