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BOOKS PRINTED IN THE [Chron. 1483.
and Gerard de Leeu; as, previous to tlie text, common to all these
Chronieles,—and beginning with ‘ in the xioble land of Surrey’—there
are, here, eleven leaves of previous matter; terminating thus, on the
reverse of b vj, just before the above quoted text:
^ncipit tC0itum Mtanie nunc bict aitgiia.
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ijoin iotie of engloti ttto£ fptgt natnti aibio t
fip ittgat ccfjc.0o it oo uamit
The conclusion of this Chronicle also vavies from that of Caxton.
The battle of Towton, on Palm-Sunday, and the coronation of
Edward IV. in the year 146'0, are somewhat more briefly detailed here.
This subject forms the close of Caxton’s Chronicle; see Typog.
Antiq. vol. i. p. 86; but, in the book under description, it. is succeeded
by more than pages of text, relating to the Popes, Calixtus III.,
Pius II., Paul II., and Sixtus IV. Just before the mention of Pius II.
A. D. 1458, we read this :
‘ Nota. Printerys of bokis wer this tyme mightely multeplied in
maguncie & thurgh out the worhl. and thei began frist * and ther
held the craftis. And this time mony men began for to be more sotell
in craftis and suyfter then euer they wer afore,’ Sign. K viij, recto.
It remains only to notice, that this impression contains two sets of
signatures : the first, from a to z, *1, and 9, inclusively, in eights : the
second, from A to K, inclusively, in eights. The copy before us appears
to want the last leaf, containing the device of the printer : of which a
fac-simile is given in the reprint of the work next described. This
copy, which is upon the whole a large and desirable one, was in the
Alchorne Collection ; and has been recently bound in russia, by C.
Lewis, after having been cleansed of a considerable quantity of stain.
Miss Currer, whose spirit and taste in the collection of Book-Rarities, is
well known to the curious, is in possession of a copy upon vellum,
but of a coarse texture,—and wanting the last leaf. Perfect copies are
of the rarest possible occurrence—but there is a fine and perfect one
in the Royal Collection.
* Sic.
BOOKS PRINTED IN THE [Chron. 1483.
and Gerard de Leeu; as, previous to tlie text, common to all these
Chronieles,—and beginning with ‘ in the xioble land of Surrey’—there
are, here, eleven leaves of previous matter; terminating thus, on the
reverse of b vj, just before the above quoted text:
^ncipit tC0itum Mtanie nunc bict aitgiia.
% fot )} 1 % toiU ^pcftc of 23tutc it £t)aU fic £f)ettte&
ijoin iotie of engloti ttto£ fptgt natnti aibio t
fip ittgat ccfjc.0o it oo uamit
The conclusion of this Chronicle also vavies from that of Caxton.
The battle of Towton, on Palm-Sunday, and the coronation of
Edward IV. in the year 146'0, are somewhat more briefly detailed here.
This subject forms the close of Caxton’s Chronicle; see Typog.
Antiq. vol. i. p. 86; but, in the book under description, it. is succeeded
by more than pages of text, relating to the Popes, Calixtus III.,
Pius II., Paul II., and Sixtus IV. Just before the mention of Pius II.
A. D. 1458, we read this :
‘ Nota. Printerys of bokis wer this tyme mightely multeplied in
maguncie & thurgh out the worhl. and thei began frist * and ther
held the craftis. And this time mony men began for to be more sotell
in craftis and suyfter then euer they wer afore,’ Sign. K viij, recto.
It remains only to notice, that this impression contains two sets of
signatures : the first, from a to z, *1, and 9, inclusively, in eights : the
second, from A to K, inclusively, in eights. The copy before us appears
to want the last leaf, containing the device of the printer : of which a
fac-simile is given in the reprint of the work next described. This
copy, which is upon the whole a large and desirable one, was in the
Alchorne Collection ; and has been recently bound in russia, by C.
Lewis, after having been cleansed of a considerable quantity of stain.
Miss Currer, whose spirit and taste in the collection of Book-Rarities, is
well known to the curious, is in possession of a copy upon vellum,
but of a coarse texture,—and wanting the last leaf. Perfect copies are
of the rarest possible occurrence—but there is a fine and perfect one
in the Royal Collection.
* Sic.