Accession number
PML 5004-05
Creator
Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Published
Imprynted at London : in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George [Richard Redman, ca. 1535] by Wyllyam Myddylton, 1525-[1542?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Middleton's name and address from colophon. Publication date conjecured by STC. Some sheets printed by Redman ca. 1535, possibly to make up a lack in first ed. stock (STC).
Readings from vol. 1: b1recto, col. 2, line 3 from bottom ends: "kyng in his be" (no hyphen); b2recto, col. 1, line 1 has: "lytell hakeneys," (with comma).
Readings from vol. 2: A1recto, col. 2, last line has: "baylye".
Vol. 1 Comprising the first and second books. Imprint as above.
Vol. 2 First Pynson ed. of the third and fourth books. Colophon reads: "Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Rycharde Pynson/ printer to the kynges moost noble grace. And ended the last day of August: the yere of our lorde god. M. D. xxv. Cum priuylegio a rege in dulto"
Readings from vol. 1: b1recto, col. 2, line 3 from bottom ends: "kyng in his be" (no hyphen); b2recto, col. 1, line 1 has: "lytell hakeneys," (with comma).
Readings from vol. 2: A1recto, col. 2, last line has: "baylye".
Vol. 1 Comprising the first and second books. Imprint as above.
Vol. 2 First Pynson ed. of the third and fourth books. Colophon reads: "Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Rycharde Pynson/ printer to the kynges moost noble grace. And ended the last day of August: the yere of our lorde god. M. D. xxv. Cum priuylegio a rege in dulto"
Description
2 v. ; 35 cm
Provenance
From the collections of Colonel Thomas Stanley, sale 1813; Sykes sale, 1824 (armorial bookplate and cipher of Sir M.M. Sykes from binding on inner front cover); Henry Perkins sale 1873; Theodore Irwin; and Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Brown morocco half-binding, in 2 volumes, by M. Duprez-Lahey.
Classification
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Department