Accession number
PML 20891
Creator
Chartier, Alain, active 15th century.
Object title
The Curial.
Published
[Westminster] : William Caxton, [1483]
Description
[6] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from colophon (leaf [1]/6r): Thus endeth the Curial made by maystre Alain Charretier. Translated thus in Englyssh by Wylliam Caxton.
Printed in Caxton's type 4*:100B.
Date based on paper stock.
Collation: [1]⁶: 6 leaves, first three leaves signed i, ii, iii.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated into English by William Caxton.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 18.4 cm, trimmed.
Printed in Caxton's type 4*:100B.
Date based on paper stock.
Collation: [1]⁶: 6 leaves, first three leaves signed i, ii, iii.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated into English by William Caxton.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 18.4 cm, trimmed.
Binding
19th-century English full brown goatskin with the gilt arms of Britwell Library (27 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports by William Pratt. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text. Pen trial (leaf [1]/6v).
Provenance
Maurice Johnson (1688-1755), of Spalding, Lincolnshire, acquired before 1730 as part of a volume containing 6 Caxton imprints (see De Ricci, Needham, and BMC IX 126; see also PML 20893); his sale (with volume broken up), Sotheby's, 21 March 1898, lot [??]; Executors of W. H. Christie-Miller for the Britwell Court Library, purchased at Johnson sale; Christie-Miller sale, Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1919, lot 21, to Quaritch (collation notes on rear pastedown) for £2980.0.0 for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1919.
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