Accession number
PML 5544
Published
Londini : In officina Richardi Graftoni ... , anno 1552.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan.
Notes
"The forme and maner of makyng, and consecratyng bishoppes, priestes, and deacons" (17 leaves at end) has special t.p. with architectural woodcut border, as on t.p.
Collation: 16 leaves, including title and calendar, 128 leaves of text; ordinal, 16 leaves and 1 leaf of instructions for selling the book.
In this issue (after 27 Oct. 1552), R6 is a cancel, containing the "Black Rubric" on kneeling and foliated 'Fol. 97'; the errata (Cc6), with prices on verso, call for leaf 35v, line 22 to insert 'Acheldama'. Cf. STC for variants.
Title within architectural woodcut border incorporating printer's device (McK. & F. 67); colophon, with printer's device (McK. 122) dated August 1552; historiated woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.9 x 18 cm.
Collation: 16 leaves, including title and calendar, 128 leaves of text; ordinal, 16 leaves and 1 leaf of instructions for selling the book.
In this issue (after 27 Oct. 1552), R6 is a cancel, containing the "Black Rubric" on kneeling and foliated 'Fol. 97'; the errata (Cc6), with prices on verso, call for leaf 35v, line 22 to insert 'Acheldama'. Cf. STC for variants.
Title within architectural woodcut border incorporating printer's device (McK. & F. 67); colophon, with printer's device (McK. 122) dated August 1552; historiated woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.9 x 18 cm.
Description
161 leaves ; 29 x 19 cm (folio)
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, 1660/01; unidentified armorial bookplate; Rev. W.J.D. Waddilove (1785-1859), signature; Barbara Gold, signature; Daniel Fuller Appleton (1826-1904), bookplate (front fly leaf); his sale, Bangs & Co. (New York), 13 April 1903, lot 44; Pierpont Morgan, purchased by 1906 (in 1903?).
Binding
Calf.
Classification
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Department