Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
Dec 1908-Mar 1909
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/252
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    / Lor 994—continued. Table), and the volume ends on reverse of fol. CocCcxv1 with the second column of the Life of Saint Polycarp ; the first sign. wants c ii (fol. xvitl); g 6, 7 (fol. Liv-LV) ; the second sign. wants S 6 (fol. ccCXLV) ; first leaf defective and mended, x 4 torn across and mended, % 6 defective, © 2 defective; some Il. scribbled on and several plain margins mended ; cut of the Martyrdom of S. Thomas run through with pen-lines, and ll. stained (large painted capitals in red) ; otherwise good and genuine throughout (measuring 154 by 104 in.) but SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN, old russia, r. e. (from the Craven Ord and Fuller-Russell libraries) | Copinger 6473 | [PRINTED AT WESTMINSTER BY WILLIAM Caxton, 1484 & 1487 2] *,* This volume is made up from the first and second editions. Both are printed in the same form on paper of the same size, and have the same number of lines to a column; the only difference being between the type of the running headlines. The foliation is con- secutive throughout, and the paper is the same. The FIRST EDI- TION wants 7 ff. in various parts, and the last 29 ll. in all 33 Il. and 3 blanks. ‘The SECOND EDITION has 229 ff. No perfect copy of the FIRST EDITION is known except the made-up one of the Spencer Library, and of the SECOND EDITION none of the other four known copies have more than 17011. This copy (of the second edition) approaches nearest the Cambridge mixed copy, which has 2441]. An interesting autograph inscription of a London merchant (probably temp. Henry VITT) occurs on fol. CCCXLVII: from all evill and mischeef good Lord deliver us. John Levens citizen Draper of London JOHN LEVENS,” and on the body of the woodcut horse on the first leaf the same hand apparently has written : ° This booke doth lye as fast as a horse can trott.” 995 VORAGINE (JACOB DE) LEGENDA AUREA, THE GOLDEN LEGEND [CAXTON, 1493], black letter, double colimns, 44 lines, with signs. (Copinger, 6474), woodcuts (IMPERFECT at beginning and end, con- tains 324 Il. beginning with fol. xix and finishing with CCCXL on Si; the signatures wanting between being c4, £4, 47, £7, & i); all ll. very clean, sound and good, except a lower marginin m 5, which is slightly mended, and fols. coCXxxiI-101, which are soiled ; sold not subject to return, modern thick boarded brown morocco plain, g. e. (measures 10% by 8 in.) sm. folio. WESTMINSTER BY WILLIAM CAXTON, 1493 THE THIRD OF CAXTON’S EDITIONS OF THE GOLDEN LEGEND, and extremely rare. This copy wants altogether about 8011. It comes through the libraries of F. H. Standish, King Louis Philippe of France, Duc d’Aumale, and W. Blades. 996 Wafer (Lionel) A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, giving an account of the Author’s abode there . . with remarkable occurrences in the South Sea and elswhere, map and plates, old calf 8vo. Jas. Knapton in St. Paul’s, 1699 997 Wagner (Herman) Dissertatio Historica de Friderici I Imp. Cogno- mento Aenobarbi Expeditione im Terram Sanctam C1272) boards sm. 4to. Argent. typis pastorianis, 1696 O
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