Accession number
PML 20895
Creator
Hawes, Stephen, -1523?
Published
Inprinted at London : in Fletestrete at the synge of the sonne by Wynkyn de worde, the yere of oure lorde. M.CCCCC. and .xvii. therd daye of December [3 December 1517]
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from leaf A1r, in woodcut.
Imprint from colophon, leaf T4v, with printer's mark.
Woodcuts.
In verse.
Signatures: A-T⁸/⁴: 112 leaves.
PML copy is the earliest complete copy extant and the only copy recorded of this ed.
Imprint from colophon, leaf T4v, with printer's mark.
Woodcuts.
In verse.
Signatures: A-T⁸/⁴: 112 leaves.
PML copy is the earliest complete copy extant and the only copy recorded of this ed.
Description
[112] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Provenance
Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford, the printed books from the Oxford library were sold by his widow, Henrietta Cavendish (1694-1755), in 1743 to: Thomas Osborne, Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, III, no. 5932; George Mason (1735-1806) (cited in Ames, Typographical Antiquities, pt. IV, no. 267), his sale, part IV, Sotheby's, 25 April 1799, lot 276, for 21.0.0 to Townsend; James West (1703-1772), Bibliotheca Westiana, Langford, 28 March 1773, lot 1816 for 3.3.0; John Ker (1740-1804), Duke of Roxburghe (former armorial binding), his sale, Evans, 18 May 1812, lot 3268 for 81.0.0; Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, manuscript annotations (front endleaf 1 verso and rear endleaf 2 recto, former armorial binding), his sale 1814, to: Richard Heber (1773-1833), purchase inscription from Sykes sale: 42.0.0 + Th. 6.6.0 = 48.6.0 (rear endleaf 2 recto), Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Evans, part IV, 8 Dec. 1834, lot 975 for 21.10.0 to Thorpe for: Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller (1874-1931), Heber sale purchase inscription (rear endleaf 2 recto), Britwell Court sale, Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1919, lot 55, to Quaritch for: J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Binding
20th-century red morocco by Charlotte M. Ullman (signed C.M.U. 1964, previously repaired by Duprez Lahey) with arms of Roxburghe and Sykes from earlier binding incorporated on inner covers.
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