Accession number
PML 20898
Published
Enprynted at London : in the Fletestrete at the sygne of y[e] son[n]e by Wynkyn de Worde, the yere of god .M.CCCCC. and .xv. the .xvi. day of Maye. Reg. R.H. viii. vii. [16 May 1515].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
2nd Wynkyn de Worde edition. The 1st ed. appeared under the title: Information for pilgrims unto the Holy Land.
Colophon (leaf C8r): Here endeth the boke called the Informacyon for pylgrymes unto the holy londe. That is to wyte to Rome to Jherusalem & to many other holy places. Enprynted at London in the Fletestrete at the sygne of y[e] son[n]e by Wynkyn de Worde. The yere of god .M.CCCCC. and .xv. the .xvi. day of Maye. Reg. R.H. viii. vii.
In prose.
Perfect copy. Gutter edges repaired on leaves A1-2 and C8.
Printer's device: McKerrow no. 19 (leaf C8v).
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸: 20 leaves.
Title from title-page (leaf A1r), with woodcut (Hodnett, no. 928).
Colophon (leaf C8r): Here endeth the boke called the Informacyon for pylgrymes unto the holy londe. That is to wyte to Rome to Jherusalem & to many other holy places. Enprynted at London in the Fletestrete at the sygne of y[e] son[n]e by Wynkyn de Worde. The yere of god .M.CCCCC. and .xv. the .xvi. day of Maye. Reg. R.H. viii. vii.
In prose.
Perfect copy. Gutter edges repaired on leaves A1-2 and C8.
Printer's device: McKerrow no. 19 (leaf C8v).
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸: 20 leaves.
Title from title-page (leaf A1r), with woodcut (Hodnett, no. 928).
Description
[20] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Provenance
Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), his sale, 6 May 1807, lot 8279; Richard Heber (1773-1833), purchase from Brand's sale (for £4.5.0) and binding (for £1.12.0) inscription (front fly leaf recto), Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Part VI, Evans, 23 March 1835, lot 1702; Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller (1874-1931), Britwell Court sale, pt. III, 30 June 1919, lot 409, to Quaritch (notes by F.S. Ferguson on front and rear fly leaves), for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), July 1919.
Binding
Light brown morocco, gilt by Charles Lewis for Heber, Sept. 1832.
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