Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
1897
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/51
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vpo whos soule god | haue mercy amen. And newely in the yere of | our lorde god M.CCCCC. z iii. Enprynted | at Tempelbarre by me Iulyane Nottary. Under this the printer’s mark.—Caxton’s Description of England ete. Fol. 1, title: The descripcion of Englonde. @ Here foloweth a lytell treatyse the Whiche treateth of the descripcion of | this londe . . Under this there are wood- cuts in compartments within a border. Fol. lib: . . Fynysshed and enprynted at Templebarre | be me lulyan Notary Dwellynge in Saynt | Clement parysse, the yere of oure lorde a. M. | CCCCC. and .iiiil. mensis Augusti. — Onder this the printer's mark. 2 vols. in 1, small folio, printed in double columns, jifty lines to the column; with woodcuts; blue morocco gilt 1504 40 0 0 The signatures are hf, a-y, and A-C = probably 151 leaves. This copy wants the preliminary leaves (three or four ?), leaf a I, a 3,a4, b 2-6, c 1-6, and d 1-4, of the Chronicle. The Description is perfect. The copy has therefore 129 leaves out of 151 (?). 583 another edition. Jol. la contains woodcuts in com- partments, including the arms of England. On the reverse begins a table, which ends on leaf 4. Leaf 2 missing. On the reverse of leaf 4 siz woodcuts in compartments. On fol. 5 begins the text. Colophon (on the reverse of leaf X &): € Here endeth this present Cronycle of En | glonde with the fruyte of tymes. compyled in | A booke. And also newely Enprynted in the ye|re of our lorde god. M.CCCCC. z .xv. by me | Iulyan Notary dwellynge in powlys chyrche | yarde besyde y* westedore by my lordes palyes. Onleaf(y 1): The dyscrypcyon of Englonde. |. . Leaf z 1. b, last line: fyrste abbote and gadred monkes. @ And soo 2 parts in 1 vol. small folio, printed in double columns, 51 lines to the column ; with woodcuts; fine copy in old calf with the bookplate of Thomas Bramston (about 1750) 1515 36 0 0 The signatures are + 4 leaves, a-v in sixes, X 8 leaves, y and Z in sixes, @ 4 leaves=probably 148 leaves.—This copy wants leaf + 2, a oye) 3 and 4,and < 2,3,4. It has therefore 141 leaves out of 148 (?). Richard Fawkes or Faques, 1509 584 FLODDEN FIELD. Fol. 1, title: @ Hereafter ensue the trewe enco [untre or] | Batayle lately don betwene Enf[glade and] | Scotlande: In whiche batayle thle Scottiss] | he. Kynge was slayne. Here a woodcut of the battle, and below it a continuation in six lines of the title : @ The maner of . . Fol. 2b, last line: rey George darcy sone and heyre to the lorde Darcy say. ol. 3a, jirst line: de beynge Capitayne of the firste batayle of the Scotths |