Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Westminster. Vitas patrum. (The lyff of the olde auncyent holy faders hermytes, translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by W. Caxton.) Five parts. Brack Lerrer, double columns of 40 and 41 lines. With printed head-lines, foliation, and signatures. Ornamental woodcut initials. Woodcut title, white on black ground, printed on first and last pages. With many woodcut illustrations:—A large cut (used six times throughout the work) of St. Jerome seated at a desk reading to an assemblage of all classes; and forty small cuts depicting incidents drawn from the text, doing duty for one hundred and fifty-five wlustrations. Caxton’s large printer’s device on the recto of the last leaf (see reproduction, page 20). Enprynted in Westmynstre by my Wynkyn de Worde the yere of our Lorde M.CCCC .lxxxxv (1495). Folio. Early nineteenth-century English binding of straight- grained morocco richly gilt on sides and back, inside den- telles, gilt edges (by Macnair). (SEE ILLUSTRATION OVERLEAF.) £1250 (Continued over) [27]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31814323_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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