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
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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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    signatures abcdefgh complete* The last column in the volume begins; Here is the ende of the hole booke of kynge Arthur and of hit noble knyghtes of the ronnde table, that wh&ft Rwy were hole to* gyder, there was euer an hondred apd. xh ASso here Is the ende of the deth of kynge Arthur. I pray you all gentylmen and gen- tylwomen that rede this booke of kynge Arthur & bis knyghtes from the begynnynge .to the endy'ge, pray forme wbyle I am alyue that god sende me good delyueraunce, And whan I am dead, I pray you all pray© for my soule. For the translacyon of this boke was fynysshed the. ix. yew of the regne of kyng Edwarde ye fourth by syr Thonias Maleorc knyght, as Jesu helpe bym for his giett myglit, a§ hi Is the servant pf Jesu botbe daye and nygtU,'*’ [This is immediately succeeded by the eotophOftttlready given at the head of this article. It materially differs from the eolophofl of t'ax* ton’s edit., of which VV. de Worde’s, 1498, is, aeeopditlg to Mr, Dlb^ din a copy. (Bibl. Spenc. iv. 408.)] An ornamented arcb*like device occupies nearly the whole of the reverse of this last printed page. The * reducer into Englysshef obiervei the- Areh* deacon, seems to have drawn hi$ work out of many vo» lumes French and Welch. And if, aeeording to Leland and others after him, he was a Wekhm&n, he was pm* bably a priest; as may be inferred, not only from the legendary vein pervading the general itory, but also from the conclusion of the work itself* ?fThe Romance of the Movte Arthur,** says Sir