Accession number
PML 2968
Creator
Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?
Published
Londini : Ex officina Richardi Graftoni, mense Januarii M.D.xliii [i.e. 1543]
Notes
The prose continuation attributed to Richard Grafton, the printer.
One of two editions printed by Grafton the same year, this one without the words "in metre" following the author's name on the title, and with the words "from" and "Englande" not contracted in the ensuing phrase.
First ed.
Green morocco binding, with crest of Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, stamped and gilt on both covers, by Lewis 1839.
One of two editions printed by Grafton the same year, this one without the words "in metre" following the author's name on the title, and with the words "from" and "Englande" not contracted in the ensuing phrase.
First ed.
Green morocco binding, with crest of Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, stamped and gilt on both covers, by Lewis 1839.
Description
[8], CCxxxviii, Cxlvi leaves ; 19 cm.
Provenance
Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford (1806 -1864), armorial crest. Toovey collection. The Acheson library was sold en block in 1878 to James Toovey, and dispersed by auction in London at Puttick and Simpson 21 April 1884.
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