Accession number
PML 20936
Creator
Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560.
Published
[Impressa London[iis] : per me Ricardum pynson in vico anglice nuncupato (the Flete strete) in intersignio Georgii commorantem, anno domini M. CCCCC.vx [1515]
Credit line
Purchased, 1920.
Notes
An edition of: Whittington, Robert. De syllabarum quantitate.
Formerly STC 25478.
Imprint from colophon.
In two parts; Part 2 has caption title: whittyntoni editio cum interpretamento Fran[n]cisci Nigri diomedes de acce[n]tu in pedestri oratio[n]e potius q[uam] soluta obseruando.
Pynson's 5d printer's mark is on t.p. and on verso of last leaf. At the end of item one is his mark no. 2 with borders, said to be the only time this mark was used after 1500 (see note by Gordon Duff); there is a full-page woodcut on recto of the same leaf (I6).
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ D⁴ E⁸ F⁴ G⁸ H⁴ I⁶; A⁸ B⁶ C⁸.
Formerly STC 25478.
Imprint from colophon.
In two parts; Part 2 has caption title: whittyntoni editio cum interpretamento Fran[n]cisci Nigri diomedes de acce[n]tu in pedestri oratio[n]e potius q[uam] soluta obseruando.
Pynson's 5d printer's mark is on t.p. and on verso of last leaf. At the end of item one is his mark no. 2 with borders, said to be the only time this mark was used after 1500 (see note by Gordon Duff); there is a full-page woodcut on recto of the same leaf (I6).
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ D⁴ E⁸ F⁴ G⁸ H⁴ I⁶; A⁸ B⁶ C⁸.
Description
[96], [44] p. : ill.; 20 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotation on recto of title page "not to be found in Herbert [Typographical antiquities]".
Provenance
Bookplates of George Wilbraham, armorial (sold by his successor 1899), and George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead (sale 1917).
Binding
Brown morocco binding by Duprez-Lahey.
Classification
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Department