Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros

Date:
1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    England—DLondon (Westminster). Wynkyn de Worde—coxzinued. HIERONYMUS (Saint)—conéinued. the yere of our lorde. M.CCCC.LXXXXV. and the tenth yere of our souerayne lorde kyng Henrye the seventh. Black Letter, DOUBLE COLUMNS, AND ADORNED WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS. . Small folio. Full morocco gilt, g. e. Westminster, Wynkyn de Worde, before August 2Ist, 1495. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. IV.). £200 The first leaf (containing the title) is in facsimile, and the last leaf with printer’s device missing, but a clean and good copy of this magnificent specimen of old English typography, considered one of the masterpieces of Wynkyn de Worde’s press. Not in Hain. Duff 235. Proctor 9697. Onty 4 Corres 1n U.S.A. (AccorDING TO CENSUS). ; LINDWOOD (William). Constitutiones Provinciales Ecclesie Anglicae. Per dominum Wilhelmum Lyndewode utriusque; juris doctorem edite. (On f. vii. recto.) {Explicit opus Magistri Wilhelmi Lyndwode super constitutiones provinciales. { Laus deo. (On the verso Wynkyn’s Caxton device.) (Then follows the table, on the last leaf of which is the colophon.) | Black Letter. FIRST LEAF WITH TITLE AND A WOODCUT OF LIND- WOOD, FULL LENGTH, IN HIS PONTIFICALS, WITH A PASTORAL STAFF IN HIS HAND. ; Small 8vo. Full morocco, with wide and elaborately gold tooled dentelles, by Clarke. Westminster, Wynkyn de Worde, 1490. £225 A very fine copy of this exceedingly rare book, with wide margins, the blank margins of four or five leaves mended, necessitating two or three words of text to be in. facsimile. COLOPHON reads :—Opus presens Fabricatum est. Et diligenter correctum Per Wynan- dum de Worde. Apud -westmonasterium. In domo Caxston. Anno Incarnacionis Millesimo quadringetesimo nonagesimo sexto. Ultima die May acabatum. Glorta deo. (1496). , Hain 10361. Duff 279. Proctor 9701.
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