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The recuyles or gaderi[n]ge to gyder of y[e] hystoryes of Troye : how it was destroyed [et] brent twyes by y[e] puyssaunt Hercules [et] y[e] thyrde [et] generall by y[e] Grekes / [tr. out of Frenshe in to Englysshe by Wyllyam Caxton].

Accession number
PML 741
Creator
Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460.
Published
London : Enprynted ... in Flete Strete at the sign of the sonne by Wynken de Worde in the yere of our lorde god, M.CCCCC.and.iii [1503]
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
3d ed. of Caxton's translation.
Collation: aa⁴ A-Z⁶ Aa-Kk⁶ = 202 leaves.
In prose.
One of 2 perfect copies recorded. Library of Congress, Rosenwald 1211 is the other complete copy; copies at Oxford All Souls and Cambridge King's College are wanting leaves.
Printer's device (McKerrow, 11) on verso of KK6.
Woodcut illustrations throughout.
Description
[404] p. : illus. ; 26 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription at top of title page, partially trimmed.
Provenance
Griswold arms on upper cover; from the Richard Bennett collection with his bookplate; stamp in red ink on tp; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Dark olive-brown morocco tooled by F. Bedford. Vellum end-papers.
Classification
Department