Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/691
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    FOLIO 371 372 373 374 375 53 Second Day FaByAN (ROBERT) CRONYCLE newly prynted, 2 vol. in one, Slacts letter, second edition, titles within woodcut borders, title to vol. I inlaid, stamped calf, rebacked morocco Wilhiam Rastell, 1533 Grafton (Richard) A Chronicle at large and meere History of the Affayres of Englande, 2 vol. in one, Slact letter, FIRST EDITION, title to vol. I within woodcut, portraits of sovereigns (slightly defective), title to vol. II within woodcut border, wants 5 leaves of table at end of vol. II, old calf, gilt back RL. Grafton, 1568-9 [Halle (Edward) The Union of Lancaster and York], black tetter, fourth issue, wants title (supplied by a reprint of the title to the furst issue), and next two leaves, next leaf slightly defective, three letters on last page defaced, otherwise in good condition, mottled calf, gilt back R. Grafton, 1550 [ Higden (Ranulf) Polycronycon], black letter, third edition, wood- cuts, wants title and last leaf (with imprint only), fol. 342 mutilated (missing text supplied in old MS8.), fol. 231 torn, margins cut from fol. 345, removing marginal note, old calf, rebacked [Southwark, P. Treveris, 1527] The Property of Mrs. PP. G. hanson. FOLIO. YEAR BOOKS. A SERIES OF TEN YEAR Books, HENRY VI, 30-39 (1451-1461), FIVE PRINTED BY PYNSON AND FIVE BY REDMAN, NONE OF WHICH ARE RECORDED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SociETy’s HANDLISTS : (1) @, De termino Michaelis Anno xxx. H. vi. signature A (6 J.) only, probably wants four leaves, folio 1 slightly defective, Sore- margins affected by damp, initial E (used by Pynson and afterwards by Redman) in earlier state (?R. Pynson, n. d.| (2) [Anno xxxi H. vi] (c, D tn fours). wants the first ten leaves, fore- margins affected by damp [Colophon] , Jmprynted at London by Robert Redman Cum priuilegio Regali. (3) @, De Termino Trinitatis An. xxxii, H. vi (A-H in alternate sizes and fours), fore-margins affected by damp [Colophon] @, /mprynted ... Regali (as above,
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