Surname: Purves Forename(s): David Laing b. 1838. d. 1873. Nationality: British. VIAF.
Poet and editor. Editor of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems (1870) and James Cook’s Voyages Round the World (1878). Biographical information: World Cathttp://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85252372/ (14 May 2021). (CC)