Title from caption, leaf [1]/1v.
Imprint from Xylo-Bav and watermark identification.
Questionably attributed to Lower Rhine production since image plates were later used in two typographic editions printed by Nicholas Götz at Cologne about 1475, see ISTC ia01114000 and ia01114200.
Collation: [1-12²]: 24 leaves. Signed on the text leaf of each bifolium: a-[m] (sometimes repeated on image plates); no signature on final bifolium, [m].
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Order of text in edition IIA (preface, Infidelity/Faith, Despair, Avarice, Impatience/Patience, Vain Glory, death) different than standard order cited in Schrieber (preface, Infidelity/Faith, Despair, Impatience/Patience, Vain Glory, Avarice, death).
Printing states differentiated by the recutting of leaves 17, 19, 21, and 23 (Schreiber identified as leaves 13, 15, 17, and 23 based on standard order) for state B.
Printed in brown ink, on one side of the paper only.
PML copy is 9 leaves (of 24): leaves 16-24 (leaves 1-15 are PML 198786); includes the first states of leaves 17, 19 , 21, and 23. NNPM
Watermark: folio 7a. Unicorn. Variant 1) Unicorn with longer tail and front leg closer to chain line. Stevenson dates as Metz, ca. 1466. NNPM
Watermark: folio 8a. Unicorn. Variant 2) Unicorn with pointy horn and thin body. NNPM
Watermark: folio 9a. Unicorn. Variant 2) Unicorn with pointy horn and thin body. NNPM
Watermark: folio 9b. Unicorn. Variant 1) Unicorn with longer tail and front leg closer to chain line. Stevenson dates Metz, ca. 1466. NNPM
Hand decoration: Woodcut plates partially hand-colored in brown, reddish-brown, green, and blue washes. Initial Q (leaf [8]/2r/sign. k2) colored blue and initial S (leaf [12]/2r/sign. [m]2) colored red. Capitals on leaf [12]/2r/sign. [m]2 with red capital strokes. Death woodcut (leaf [12]/1v/sign. [m]1) with elements outlined or highlighted in rubricator's red, including capital strokes to capitals in banderoles. NNPM