Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16-18 February 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/898
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    511 Laneranp (W.) THE VISION oF PIERCE PLOWMAN, FIRST EDITION, blach etter, woodcut border to title, date mis- printed 1505 on title and partly obliterated by ornament, old notes on margins, one or two worm-holes at beginning and last two leaves defective and repaired, panelled brown morocco gilt, g. é. 4to. Robert Crowley, 1550 512 [Le Sages (A. R.)] THe History anp ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE, 2 vol. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, original calf, one cover loose 12mo. Jacob Tonson, 1716 , Jn Cwo Uolumes. UV Gee gh ols NEE ee “ panies wig ot LON DON: ch i Bilt Printed for Jac oB TONSON, at Shake- Ds By ! Spear's-Head in the Strand. 1716; ** Collation. Vol. I frontispiece a6 (actually this copy has eight leaves made up by a duplicate two leaves of the . contents of vol. II), B to P in twelves 98, R2. Vol. II frontispiece (same as vol. I), title, and two leaves of contents, without signature B to O in twelves, sig. 0 12 (blank) is wanting in this copy. Only two complete copies of this rare edition have occurred for sale. The issue was known for many years only by an odd vol. I, sold in these rooms in 1919.
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