Accession number:
PML 20039
Published:
[Westminster] : [Wynkyn de Worde], [1500]
Description:
[12] leaves : illustrations (woodcut) ; 18 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf āa2r.
Imprint from ISTC, after STC and Duff.
Printed in de Worde's type 4:99B.
Signatures: āa-bb⁶: 12 leaves. Leaf bb3 signed āa2.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut of crowned lion surrounded by animals on leaves āa1r-v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.6 x 12.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: bb6, replaced in facsimile from another edition (ISTC il00407200/Hellinga-Duff 263), including De Worde's Caxton printer's mark (McKerrow device no. 2).
Binding:
Modern gilt-tooled brown goatskin over paper boards (18 x 13 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Francis Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
[Haworth, unidentified, cited in Duff -- perhaps Richard Haworth, Sotheby's, 7 March 1826;] Sir William Tite (1798-1873); his sale, Sotheby's, 18 May 1874, lot 1908 for £6.10.0 (perhaps by Locker-Lampson); Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895), bookplate (front pastedown), The Rowfant Library (1886), p. 71; [Elihu Dwight Church (1835-1908), cited in Duff;] J.P. Morgan (1867-1943), Jr., purchased from G.D. Smith, April 1916.
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