<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> William Caxton, the first English printer, was responsible for the first two folio editions of The Canterbury Tales which were published in 1478 and 1483 . Caxton's second printing, by his own account, came about because a customer complained that the printed text differed from a manuscript he knew; Caxton obligingly used the man's manuscript as his source . Both Caxton editions carry the equivalent of manuscript authority . Caxton's edition was reprinted by his successor, Wynkyn de Worde, but this edition has no independent authority . </P> <P> Richard Pynson, the King's Printer under Henry VIII for about twenty years, was the first to collect and sell something that resembled an edition of the collected works of Chaucer, introducing in the process five previously printed texts that we now know are not Chaucer's . (The collection is actually three separately printed texts, or collections of texts, bound together as one volume .) There is a likely connection between Pynson's product and William Thynne'sa mere six years later . Thynne had a successful career from the 1520s until his death in 1546, when he was one of the masters of the royal household . His editions of Chaucers Works in 1532 and 1542 were the first major contributions to the existence of a widely recognised Chaucerian canon . Thynne represents his edition as a book sponsored by and supportive of the king who is praised in the preface by Sir Brian Tuke . Thynne's canon brought the number of apocryphal works associated with Chaucer to a total of 28, even if that was not his intention . As with Pynson, once included in the Works, pseudepigraphic texts stayed within it, regardless of their first editor's intentions . </P> <P> In the 16th and 17th centuries, Chaucer was printed more than any other English author, and he was the first author to have his works collected in comprehensive single - volume editions in which a Chaucer canon began to cohere . Some scholars contend that 16th - century editions of Chaucer's Works set the precedent for all other English authors in terms of presentation, prestige and success in print . These editions certainly established Chaucer's reputation, but they also began the complicated process of reconstructing and frequently inventing Chaucer's biography and the canonical list of works which were attributed to him . </P>

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