Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
c.1873
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    1482, [ Vide Vol. i. p. 181], ‘ with a beautiful new letter... We learn from ‘An In- troductorie Anno Dni M. CCCCLXXXXV,’ at the back of the title, that it was . executed at the request of Roger Thornye, mercer. . “ This book is justly commended for the beauty of its typographical execution : indeed it may be questioned whether any contemporancous production of the foreign presses exceed it, in the regularity of the register, and lustre of the ink. A fine gilt copy of it, at the sale of Mr. Daly’s books [vide Bibl. Daly, No. 553], a.p. 1792, was sold for £18. 5s.”—~Ames and Dibdin, IT. pp. 49 and 52. a booke and also enprynted by one somtyne scole mayster of Saynt Albans, on whoos soule god have mercy; with the Descrypeyon of Englonde, sm. folio, the first edition by Wynkyn de Woord, wanting the last three leaves of the Description, and the first two leaves of the Chronicle, otherwise a fine copy, ruled, russia, £42. Emprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn de Worde, 1497 Excessively rare, and, according to Lowndes, the four copies known are those of George III and Mr. Grenville(both in British Museum), Lord Spenser’s, and one on vellum in the Lambeth Library. This belonged to the Marquis of Hastings, and sold in his sale for £60. rum, sm. folio, leaves 195-370, but not quite consecutive, woodcuts, fine copy in calf, £3. 16s Wynkyn de Worde, 1493 LEGENDE, for lyke as passeth Golde in valewe all other metallys, so this legende excelleth all other bookes, folio, very spirited woodcuts, Black Metter, wanting the preliminary leaves, folios 1-8, and folios 491-498, a few others defective, calf, fine tall copy, £36. (Wrnxyn DE Worpe), 1498 This rare volume is as far as it goes in very fine condition : the woodcuts are very spirited and differ from those in the edition of 1527. The volume commences with the Old Testament Saints (Abraham) on sheet Bbij and extends to sheet Cg 5 leaves, or pp. 9-52 ; signatures then beginning again with a and extending to sheet D, or folios 1—ccctxxxx. The last leaf containing “ The Lyfe of Saynt Morante.” folio, Black Letter, woodcuts, imperfect at end, and first four leaves supplied in MS. calf, £10. Wynkyn de Worde, 1527 Latin and English, woodcut on the title-page, AN EDITION UNKNOWN TO BIBLIOGRAPHERS, imprynted at London by Wynkyn de Worde in Flete Strete at ye sygne of the Sonne, 1529—[Sum es fui] Gradus com- parationum cum verbis anomalis simul et eorum compositis, Latin and English, WYNKYN DE Worpz, 1527—Ars epistolandi Francisci Nigri, Daventri@, 1501—3 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. fine copies, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by Faulkner, £25. Lond. WyNKYN DE Worpk, 1501-27-29 amples and auctortyes extracte and drawen as well of Holy Seryptures as other Doctours and good auncyente Faders, the whiche is moche utyle and profytable unto all people; sm. folio, woodcuts, Black Letter, wanting 12 leaves of tabula, with title-page at commencement, and X x 4-6 at end, EXTREMELY RARE, calf, from Archdeacon Cotton’s library, £12. 12s (Wynkyn de Worde, 1510) One of the rarest productions of Wynkyn de Worde’s press. It contains some marvellous relations drawn from Scriptural and Secular Histories. Priced, 1826, Baynes, £18. ; 1854, Gardner’s copy fetched £26. 10s ; Sotheby’s, a wormed copy, £21. 10s. another edition, reprinted page for page, sm. folio, woodcuts, the