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Text that summarizes the poem's passus.

Crowley's letter to the reader. Like Bale, Crowley packages the fourteenth-century poet as a proto-reformer.

Title page of The Vision of Pierce Plowman.

Beginning of the Squire's Tale, with woodcut.

Beginning of the Knight's Tale, with woodcut.

Editor's preface.

Original title page with a much later frontispiece.

Original title page with a much later frontispiece.

Note by James Boaden, former owner.

The end of Book 3 and beginning of Book 4 of The Faerie Queene. The title page that should be between these two leaves has been moved to the front of the book and altered.

The end of the ink facsimile.

This copy was missing some leaves, so one of the book's owners carefully made an ink facsimile of the missing pages.

Columbia's copy of the 1609 Faerie Queene lacks the title page and dedicatory epistle. One of the book's owners thus removed the title page preceding books 4-6, inserted it at the beginning of the book, and altered it to read "The First Part of the…

A dirty page.

Grease stain and the beginning of Measure for Measure.

Leaf a little burnt.

Catalogue and beginning of The Tempest.

Title page of the Shakespeare second folio.

A dictionary wherein "olde and obscure words in Chaucer" are explained.

Text of The Canterbury Tales. The margins contain manicules marking the sentences, as the title page advertises. Note the slight difference between the manicules in the left and right margins.