Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/734
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Kalendre of the new Legende of Englande/Emprynted ... by Richarde Pynson ... [n.d.] On folio 120: @ Here begynneth the lyfe of seynt Birgette. On folio 183: @ Thus endyth the Lyfe of Seynt Byrgette Enprynted at Lodon.. . by Rycharde Pynson ... 1516. [Then follows with fresh sig- natures on 16 leaves, A-B8]. Hereaftre foloweth a deuoute Boke compylyd by mayster Walter Hylton to a deuoute man in temperall estate howe he shulde rule hym. On sig. B8: @ Thus endyth a deuoute boke copylyd by mayster Walter Hylton/Empryntyd at lodon ... by (Rycharde Pynson) .. . 1506, 3 parts, Ofaes letter, large woodcut of St. Bridget within an elegant flower border, Pynson’s woodcut device at end of each of the three parts, wants the first 20 leaves, wormed throughout (some leaves rather badly), front cover and part of back only of the original binding remain, stamped calf over wooden boards 4to. London, k. Pynson, 20 Feb. 1516 EXTREMELY RARE. Hylton’s treatise “'l'o a Deuoute man,” though dated 1506, is no doubt printed at the same time as the rest of the book. HALL IN THE BANQVETTING-HovSE, on Shrove-T'vesday-night, the 18. of February, 1633, FIRST EDITION, second issue (with the errors in pagination corrected and 12 pages reset), worm- hole through the blank margin, has the original blank leaf before title, A VERY LARGE, CLEAN AND UNPRESSED COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BROWN PAPER WRAPPER (the upper cover torn) 4to (Thin. by 5Btt in.) London: Printed for Thomas Walkley ... 1634 a true lournall to the confines of the Hast Indies ... With the Authors returne by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assiria ... containing a full suruew of the Knigdom (sic.) of Persia ... Also a true relation of Sir Anthonie Sherleys entertainment there : and the estate that his Brother M. Robert Sherley liued in, FIRST EDITION, the blank inner margin of four leaves in gaihermg & wormed,.the top rule of two or three leaves shaved, the blank leaf for sig. A4 missing, unbound 4to. London Printed for Thomas Thorpe, and are to bee sold by Walter Burre. 1611 Sardes, Acted before the King at Oxford (Note. Written by Wm. Cartwright a Student of Christchurch, and first repre-
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