Accession number
PML 15586
Creator
Barbour, John, approximately 1320-1395.
Published
[Imprintit at Edinburgh : be Robert Lekpreuik [or John Scott?], at the expensis of Henrie Charteris, anno Do. M.D.LXXI. [1571]]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1907.
Notes
An edition of: Barbour, John. Bruce.
Earliest known edition; only copy reported in ESTC.
Title and imprint from STC. The imprint comes from a laid-in title page, privately printed by David Laing in the 19th century, and is questionable.
Drop-head title, page 1, begins "The actis and lyfe of the maist victoriious conquerour, Robert Brvce, King of Scotland." The laid-in title page has the same title.
Library's copy imperfect; lacking leaf A1 and Dd4, possibly a blank.
Collation - Title & 1st leaf of pref. lacking; pref., 3ff; text, A-2, Aa-Cc in 8s, Dd[superscript]iii with woodcut at end (ff 1-211).
Woodcut on verso of last leaf.
Earliest known edition; only copy reported in ESTC.
Title and imprint from STC. The imprint comes from a laid-in title page, privately printed by David Laing in the 19th century, and is questionable.
Drop-head title, page 1, begins "The actis and lyfe of the maist victoriious conquerour, Robert Brvce, King of Scotland." The laid-in title page has the same title.
Library's copy imperfect; lacking leaf A1 and Dd4, possibly a blank.
Collation - Title & 1st leaf of pref. lacking; pref., 3ff; text, A-2, Aa-Cc in 8s, Dd[superscript]iii with woodcut at end (ff 1-211).
Woodcut on verso of last leaf.
Description
[3], 211 leaves : ill. ; 19 cm
Provenance
David Laing (listed in Rowfant catalogue); bookplate of Frederick Locker; William C. Van Antwerp (his sale March 22-23, 1907 via Quaritch); Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Olive brown morocco, gilt, in case.
Classification
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Department