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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![549 Suetonius. La tres illustre et memorable vie faictz et gestes de douze Caesars . . . Nouuellement translatee de latin en francoys par Guillaume Michel, lettres bdtardes, a large woodcut on the title, and other large woodcuts (wants — 2 leaves), green vellum Paris, Pierre Leber, 1530 550 Brinpine. Discours de la religion des anciens romains escript par Noble Seigneur Guillaume du Choul, contem- porary brown calf, the sides decorated with intertwining plain and silver leafy scrolls outlined with gold ; a large central ornament of two broad fillets, one plain, one black, enterlacing to a geometrical design relieved with leafy scrolls ; the background of the whole cover decorated with a semis of gold dots ; in the centre of the upper cover in gold the inscription “‘ Lois de Ste Mavre, Marquis de Nesle,”’ on the lower “Conte de lvigny et de Laval’; the back decorated with fillets, scrolls and dots to a similar design, gilt edges tooled ‘au pointillé’’ (back defective and mended, one joint cracked, corners repaired ; somewhat rubbed, a small piece torn from the surface of lower cover) Lyons, G. Roville, 1556 551 CaRACCIOLUS. Quadragesimale de paenitentia, roman letter, long lines, 36 to a page, capitals in red (a few letters damaged by worm-holes), red morocco gilt (joints cracked) Venice. Franz Renner, 1472 *.* The second book printed by Renner at Venice. 552 CHRONICLES. THE CHRONYCLE OF ENGLONDE with the Fruite of Tymes. The Descripcyon of Englonde, black letter, double columns, a large woodcut on the title of the ‘“* Descripcyon,”’ other woodcuts in the text, Caxton’s large device and the device of Wynkyn de Worde (wants first leaf, another leaf defective, a leaf torn and several letters damaged by worm-holes, the word “‘ pope’”’ erased through- out, five other leaves slightly defective), calf [Colophon] Fynysshed & enprynted . . . by me Wynkyn de Worde the yere of our lorde god M.CCCCC and XV. Wynkyn de Worde, 1515 553 SHAKESPEARE (WiLLIAM) Mr WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR’S CoMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES . . . unto which is added, seven plays never before Printed in Folio .. . The Fourth Edition, portrait by Droeshout with verses beneath (10 leaves slightly torn or split, and a few words damaged by small holes or stains, portrait and last leaf defective and tae old panelled calf (rebacked) Printed for H. Herringman, EH. Brewster and R. Bentley . . . 1685 *_* Tall copy, measuring 144in. by 9jin. It will, as usual, be sold not subject to Petar](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31645501_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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