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1483.]
WILLIAM CAXTON.
265
ticular description will be found in the Typog. Antlq. vol. i. p. 161,1?6.
The signatures of the latter treatise extend to d, in eights ; d having
only 4 leaves. On the reverse of d iiij, is the following imprint:
<£n#rpiittefci % topfttam Carton at toegtme.gtre/
There can be no doubt of both these treatises having been printed
and published at the same time; but wliether the present, or the next
described, edition of them, be the anterior publication, is a point, of
some doubt; upon which the reader shall presently judge for himself.
The work itself is not less interesting tlian curkms ; and must be con-
sidered a very valuable, and almost necessary, portion of any theologi-
cal library which embraces the eariy history of our Liturgy. The
copy under description was formerly Dr. Farmer’s; and is a large,
sound, and desirable one: in russia binding.
855. Liber Festivalis ; to which are added the
Quatuor Sermones. Without Date. Folio.
This edition is distinguished from the preceding one, by being printed
in double columns, in a larger type, and by having 33 lines in a full
page. The edition, previously described, is executed in Caxton’s
smallest type, with long lines, and has 38 lines in a full page. In point
of rarity, as well as beauty of execution, the preference is entirely with
the one under description. Upon the whole, I incline to consider it the
second edition of the Festival ; since the text is abridged, and
the matter is set out with more attention to the gratification of the eye.
There are also breaks in the text, and the word /Satracto is constantly
occurring, while in the edition just described it is wholly omitted.
This impression commences on a ij, (a i being blank) with a short
prologue of 21 lines, which is not to be found in the pi'ecedingedition.
The first Sunday in Advent immediately follows,with a prefix, and ‘Good
Men & Wymen’—which latter is omitted in the above. In both of these
copies, the part relating to St. Thomas a Becket has received no injury;
a circumstance of unusual occurrence in the theological publications of
this period. We are told here, (sign. i ij) that, in the reparations of
the King’s palaces at London and Westminster, * bytwene Ester and
Wytsontyde, thomas made to repayre it ayen, For he had there soo
many werke men of dyuerse craftes, that a man sholde vnneth here his
WILLIAM CAXTON.
265
ticular description will be found in the Typog. Antlq. vol. i. p. 161,1?6.
The signatures of the latter treatise extend to d, in eights ; d having
only 4 leaves. On the reverse of d iiij, is the following imprint:
<£n#rpiittefci % topfttam Carton at toegtme.gtre/
There can be no doubt of both these treatises having been printed
and published at the same time; but wliether the present, or the next
described, edition of them, be the anterior publication, is a point, of
some doubt; upon which the reader shall presently judge for himself.
The work itself is not less interesting tlian curkms ; and must be con-
sidered a very valuable, and almost necessary, portion of any theologi-
cal library which embraces the eariy history of our Liturgy. The
copy under description was formerly Dr. Farmer’s; and is a large,
sound, and desirable one: in russia binding.
855. Liber Festivalis ; to which are added the
Quatuor Sermones. Without Date. Folio.
This edition is distinguished from the preceding one, by being printed
in double columns, in a larger type, and by having 33 lines in a full
page. The edition, previously described, is executed in Caxton’s
smallest type, with long lines, and has 38 lines in a full page. In point
of rarity, as well as beauty of execution, the preference is entirely with
the one under description. Upon the whole, I incline to consider it the
second edition of the Festival ; since the text is abridged, and
the matter is set out with more attention to the gratification of the eye.
There are also breaks in the text, and the word /Satracto is constantly
occurring, while in the edition just described it is wholly omitted.
This impression commences on a ij, (a i being blank) with a short
prologue of 21 lines, which is not to be found in the pi'ecedingedition.
The first Sunday in Advent immediately follows,with a prefix, and ‘Good
Men & Wymen’—which latter is omitted in the above. In both of these
copies, the part relating to St. Thomas a Becket has received no injury;
a circumstance of unusual occurrence in the theological publications of
this period. We are told here, (sign. i ij) that, in the reparations of
the King’s palaces at London and Westminster, * bytwene Ester and
Wytsontyde, thomas made to repayre it ayen, For he had there soo
many werke men of dyuerse craftes, that a man sholde vnneth here his