The hors, the shepe [and] the ghoos.

Accession number:

PML 27473

Author:

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?

Published:

[Westminster] : [William Caxton], [about 1476]

Description:

[18] leaves ; 20 cm (Quarto in half-sheets)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1930.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r).
Explicit (leaf [2]/6v): Thus endeth the horse the ghoos and the sheep.
Imprint based on type and paper evidence.
Printed in Caxton's type 2:135B.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰]: 18 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets
For an account of how this edition could precede Caxton's other edition of this title (il00407100), see BMC XI 329-30.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.1 x 13.7 cm

Binding:

19th-century English purple, straight-grained morocco, gilt-tooled over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Charles Lewis, 1816, under Dibdin's direction. Inset paper doublures and plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges. Blank paper added after text to fill out binding.

Variant Title:

The Horse, the Sheep, and the Goose

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombard (only one required in work, leaf [1]/2r). Annotations: 15th-/16th-century pen trials (leaf [2]/1r). Manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures (s and t) along bottom edge, mainly trimmed. Bibliographic notes by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1816 and T.T., 1822 (leaf [1]/1v).

Provenance:

York Minster, probably bequeathed by Tobie Matthew (1546-1628), Archbishop of York, originally part of a volume of 9 tracts that were all separately rebound in 1816 (see Needham, Printer & the Pardoner, p. 69); A.S.W. Rosenbach, purchased from the Dean of the Chapter of York Minster, 16 April 1930 (along with PML 27474, from same tract volume); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach, 1930.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books