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Credit: Sales catalogue 343: William Ridler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Borracto (J.) pe Castsus Virorum. [Luustrium, sm. folio, EDITIO PRINCEPS, printed in a large gothic letter, veRY FINE copy, brown morocco extra, BY C. LEWIS, OF GREAT RARITY, £10 18s No place, etc., cirea 1470 Of this famous work by the Author of the Decameron, only 3 or 4 copies are known of the first edition. Roscoe's was translated into English by Lydgate and printed by Pynson. A copy of this edition is now worth £200. The printer of this work is supposed to have been Uuric Zev ; it was in his office that our own Wm. Caxton LEARNT THE ART OF PRINTING. THIS COPY WAS SOLD BY. PAYNE AND #0ss To StR JOHN THOROLD for £35. Pat urentberg “hrontele—The Great Prcrure Book of the. Fir- TEENTH CENTURY, thick royal folio, ILLUSTRATED with nearly 3,000 SPIRITED woopcutTs by the Master of ALBERT DggEr, ORIGINAL BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, BEST EDITION, LARGE SOUND COPY, old half calf gilt, fFom the Aston Liprary, £10 18s Nurembd., A. KOBERGER, 1493 Recent copies in new bindings with washed and mended leaves, therefore spoiling the impressions, have been selling from £30 to £40. One quite recently produced Firry Gurngas. Karly Printinc. —Gesta RuHomMANorvuM cum pluribus applicatis Hystoriis de Virtutibus et Viciis, autograph of William Letham, s. l., 1489—JOHANNIS JUNIORIS Scata Catt, Lovanit per Johannem de Westfalia, 1485, in one vol, stout sm. folio, both works printed in black letter, LARGE SOUND copy, old russia very neat, £3 10s 1485—9 This vol. sold in Sir Mark Sykes’s sale for £8 10s. The FIRST woRK is a famous collection of tales and stories of Love and Adventure for winter evenings amusement, see Douce’s Illustrations of Shakespeare. Homerr Opera, Greek, cum Commentariis Gr. Eustathii, 4 vols, folio, Eprtio PRINCEPs, printed with ALDINE TYPE, FINE LARGE CLEAN COPY, in bright old gilt calf very neat, VERY RARE, £3 18s Roma, A. Bladus (Typis Aupus), 1550 Dr. Dibdin justly observes that this First Epirion isamong the most splendid monuments in the world of GREEK PRINTING. Copies have sold—Dr. Heath’s £68 5s—Dnke of Grafton’s £53—Horsley’s £60, cutting of Copies priced £24. THIS IS THE CHEAPEST COPY EVER BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE. Greek.—Hksiop1 Opgera, Gr. et Lat. cum Notis Variorum editit T. Robinson, folio, LARGEST PAPER, (only 10 copies printed). bust of Hesiod, FINE COPY, bright old gilt English red morocco, border of gold on sides, gilt edges, THOROLD’s bookplate, £4 10s Oxon., 1787 The rarest of the Classics printed at the Sheldon Press. Lowndes gives the names of the Possessors of copies, iucluding this onein the Syston Park Library, see Dr. Dibdin’s Library Companion, page 219. A copy sold at the Duke of Grafton’s sale for £105, and Lord Vernon gave £130 for the copy now in Mr. Holford’s Library. Bewick (Thos.) Works, BrrrisH Birps, QUADRUPEDS, AlSvuP’s FABLES, Memoirs, &c., 5 vols, royal 8vo, LARGE PAPER, THE MEMORIAL EpITIoNn, hundreds of BEAUTIFUL WOODCUTS, 2 portraits of BEWICK ADDED, half morocco extra, cloth sides, gilt top edges, UNCUT, £3 188 Newcastle, 1885 THIS WORK WAS ISSUED TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY AT A COST OF £12 12s. Homer.—The Whole Works of Homgsr, Prince of Poets, in his Iliads and Odysses, translated according to the Greeke, by GkorGE CHAPMAN, 2 vols in 1, thick small folio, FIRST EDITION, engraved title by Hole, FINE COPY, green morocco super extra, borders of gold, gut edges, by RIvIERE, £6 6s NN. Butler [1616] CHapMAN’s Home_nr is one of the rarest of English Books in perfect state. Last copy sold at Sotheby’s produced over £30. The Phillips copy sold £28. Contains the Dedication to Prince Henry. Shakespeare.— First Eprrion of WILLIAM. SHAKESPEARE’S Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published according to the true Original Copies, facsimile of the ONLY UNCORRUPTED EDITION, edited by Wm. Urcort, folio, PORTRAIT AFTER DROESHOUT, AND VERSES, Fine Copy, russia gilt. borders of gold on sides, £3 38 1623—1806 This uncastrated reprint of 1806 is much more coveted than the later attempts at facsimile. and fast rising in value, since Geo. Daniel’s copy of the original produced £716, and another, recently. nearly £1000. Jonson (Ben.) Workes, Masques, anD Comepigs, thick folio, FIRST EDITION, LARGE Paper, UNIQUE, engraved title by Hole, old half russia nt., £5 10s 1616 Unknown to Lowndes on Large Paper, and I have searched in vain in the Catalogues of Thorpe and Lilly,; the eminent Booksellers, for a copy, nor can I find any record of one on large paper. The bookis 12 inches high by 8 wide. Among the names of the principal comedians occur WILL..SHAKESPEARE. (One leaf has a slight defect). } Songs to each Play added, thick folio, portratt by Marshall, rInE copy, calf gilt, £3 3s 1679 Best Epition, uniform with the folio Shakespeare. Spenser (Edm.) Works, First Cottectep Eprrion.—Farris QUEEN, Shepherd’s Calendar, Poems and Sonnets, sm. folio, with all the titles and woodcuts, ornamental borders, d&c., calf gilt neat, £3 88 M. Lowndes, 1611 This is the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION which is very scarce, it comprises some of the FIRST EDITIONS of the Poems. A similar copy, old calf, recently sold at Sotheby’s for £6 6s ; another, calf extra, £8 10s. VeccHintri (Hieronymi) Florentini ab Aegypto Doctoris Theologi, OPUS DE ANNO PRIMITIVE AB ExorpD1i0 Munpt, royal folio (size of Nuremburg Chronicle), RED MOROCCO SUPER EXTRA, elegant gold tooling on sides, gilt edges, leather joints, EXTREMELY RARE, £2 2s ; Aug. Vind. ex imp. Autoris, 1621 This work owing to some opinions repugnant to the Church of Rome, the author was immured ‘in the dungeons of the Inquisition, his book originally suppressed, and its sale forbidden in all countries on pain of severe penalties. ‘To this alone has been generally ascribed its amazing rarity. A copy in calfis priced 1n Loneman’s CaTALoGuE, £28 (see long printed slip inserted). A GREAF CURIOSITY OF PRINTING.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33159579_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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