Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
June 1872
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/6
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Both editions run on together to the passage on the last page of the second edition : And a mon that Iyoyth in thys world without vertues lyveth not as a man but a8 a befte. The first edition ends thus: And therefore my right redoubted Lord J pray almighty god to fave the Kyng our foverain lord to qnve him grace to yffue as a Kynge tabounde in all vertued | to be affifted with all other bid Lordes in fuch whfe yn his noble roname of Cnglond may profpere | habounde in yertuecs and yn fynne may be efchewid juftice Eepte | the roname defended good men rewarded malefactours punyffhid the ydle peple to be put to laboure that he wyth the nobles of the roname may regne glorioufly. Sn conquernnge hid rightfull inheritaunce | that verranpeads and charite may endure in both his ronames and that marchandife may have his cours in fuche wife that every man efdyewe fynne | and encrefe in vertuous occupacions | Praynge your good grace to reffenve this lityll and fymple boof made under the hope and fhadow of your noble protection by hym that ig your moft Humble fervant in gree and thane And FJ fhall praye almighty god for your long lyf < welfare | whiche he preferve And fende sta eT Aaa of your hye noble joyous and vertuous defirs men: |: Syriyffhid the laft day of marche the yer of our lord god a. thoufand four honderd and Irritii.. 3.34. The second edition ends thus: | Shenne late every man of what condycion he be that redyth or herith this litel boof redde. tafe therby enfaumple to amende bym. Explicit per Garton. Dedes of many Tymes, englyshed by Jehan de Trevisa, with an eighth book added, by W. Caxton, stout folio, FIRst EDITION, Gothic Petter, with many early MS. notes, old English red morocco gilt, gilt edges, FINE LARGE COPY, EXCESSIVELY RARE, the Llandaff House copy, £80. Imprinted by William Caxton, 1482 CoLLATIon :—The Proheme, two leaves in MS. commencing on a 2 ; the Table a 4 to 6,27 in MS. a 8 wanting; b 8 leaves,c 3 leaves, c 4 wanting. Then the text commences on sig. 1 ii. and is continued to sig. 55 vii. in eights, sig. 55 being omitted, with the exception of signatures 28 and 49, the former having 9 leaves and the latter 4 leaves. Four leaves of the table are inlaid and the remainder mended ; folios 169—176 mended in the margins ; fol. 421 and the last leaf in MS. ‘There is one blank leaf (fol. 4). ' It will be seen from the foregoing collation that this copy wants seven leaves, four blanks not being counted. Five of the leaves, however, have the text supplied in MS. Mr. Blades mentions twenty-eight copies, nearly the whole of which are WHICH THE KNIGHT OF THE TOURE MADE, AND SPEKETH OF MANY FAYRE ENSAMPLES AND THENSYGNEMENTYS AND TECHYNG oF Hts pouGHTERS, small folio, splendidly bound in dark green morocco, covered with blind tooling, joints, blue morocco linings covered with gold tooling, silk fly-leaves, gilt edges, by Lewis, from the library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, £616. William Caxton . . enprynted at Westmynstere the last day of Janyuer the fyrst yere of the regne of knyge Richard the thyrd (1484) The translation was completed in June, 1483, ExcrssivELy RARE, ONLY