A bibliographical and descriptive tour from Scarborough to the library of a philobiblist [Francis Wrangham] in its neighbourhood / By John Cole, bookseller, Scarborough.

  • John Cole
Date:
1824
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Credit: A bibliographical and descriptive tour from Scarborough to the library of a philobiblist [Francis Wrangham] in its neighbourhood / By John Cole, bookseller, Scarborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    production of honest Wynkynrs fruitful press, which is given in the language of Mr* Wrangham’s communica- tion* I have subjoined within crotchets what occurred to me, on comparing it with the account ojf de Worde n previous edition in Mill* Spen$a My copy of the Morted* Arthur, folded in eights, after mm leaves of index, k e. the whole pf sighatw bfeh, and the last leaf of aaa (the first seven leaves, being deficient) begins with signature a. Each of the Xxi. bokes, I should premise, is preceded by a wood cut (of the whole breadth, and about half the depth* of the page) and an ornamented initial. The cats indicate about a Chinese degree of skill in perspective, and exact the whole force of the reader’s imagi- nation to convert the gentlemen into heroes, or the ladies into angels. The same pothook, according to iff position, represents a bird or a bush—and Sir Christopher Wren himself would be puzzled with* their churches, asrnuch as Vauban with their fortresses; [Some of these cuts Mr. Dibdin has had copied in fac-simile, and they are in truth, of most rude workmanship ] It is printed in columns.—The opening is as follows: « Herebegynneth the fyrst boke of the moost noble and worthy pRiNCEkyng Arthur sometyme kyng of ©rete Brytayne, now called Englande whichb treateth of hi* noble actes and feates of armes and chyualrye, and on his noble knyghtes of toe table ronde and tois volume is deuyded into. xxi. bokes. [The words printed in capitals are not in the same prefix, In the edition of 149$, see bibl, spenc. iv. 404.J The books are of very unequal length, the xiii, boke cop*, sisting only of fonr or five leaves, and the xv. of only three, while, the x. (which is also called the seconde booke of syr Trystram, and which is preceded by three wood cuts, or a page and a half of orna- ment—beginning also with a fresh signature a, the precediug nine