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Chronicle; 1197.] WYNKYN DE WORDE.
401
905. Cronycle oe Englonde, wyth the Frute
oe Tymes. Enpryntid at IVestmestre 1497-
Folio.
Second Edition. This impression coniprehends two reprints: the
first, of the Description of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ire-
land ; from the printed text of the same work by Caxton, which
again is confessed by the latter printer, in his Chronieles of 1480
(vide p. 228 ante), to have been c taken out of Polichronicon.’ In the
copy before us, this Description of Britain commences on the recto of
the first leaf, A i, with a title over a wood-cut exactly the same as the
cut which precedes the XVth Book of W. de Worde’s edition of
* Bartholomaeus de Proprietatibus Rerum.’ This copy is unluckily so
imperfect as to want, in this first treatise, all the leaves after D iij, or
perhaps 4 leaves. The signatures run in sixes. In the second place,
the Fruit of the Times is a complete reprint of what is called the St.
Alban’s Chronicle; but the copy under description wants the com-
mencement of it, as well as the two latter leaves of the first signature
a, the two latter leaves of b, a part of f 2, g i,—but there are too
many deficiencies to be noticed with the hope ofhaving them supplied
by the discovery of another defective copy—yet containing the leaves
here wanted. We shall therefore conclude the article by observ-
ing that the signatures, in sixes, extend to y, z, 9; and, afterwards,
from A to I. These signatures have a peculiarity of being designated
only by the letter beneath—as a, b, or c; and the numbers, i, ij, iij,
iiij, v, and vi, are impressed nearly in the centre of the right side
margin, above them. On the recto of I iiij, we read the colophon,
thus :
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cfc of <£nglont!c toptfj tfjc fnttc of t\y
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prpnteti Rn onc fomtpme fcofc mapftcr
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fjauc mcrcp/ C 3fnti nctucip in tfjc ptt
of our lorD goti. . €€€€. frrTrbij*
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401
905. Cronycle oe Englonde, wyth the Frute
oe Tymes. Enpryntid at IVestmestre 1497-
Folio.
Second Edition. This impression coniprehends two reprints: the
first, of the Description of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ire-
land ; from the printed text of the same work by Caxton, which
again is confessed by the latter printer, in his Chronieles of 1480
(vide p. 228 ante), to have been c taken out of Polichronicon.’ In the
copy before us, this Description of Britain commences on the recto of
the first leaf, A i, with a title over a wood-cut exactly the same as the
cut which precedes the XVth Book of W. de Worde’s edition of
* Bartholomaeus de Proprietatibus Rerum.’ This copy is unluckily so
imperfect as to want, in this first treatise, all the leaves after D iij, or
perhaps 4 leaves. The signatures run in sixes. In the second place,
the Fruit of the Times is a complete reprint of what is called the St.
Alban’s Chronicle; but the copy under description wants the com-
mencement of it, as well as the two latter leaves of the first signature
a, the two latter leaves of b, a part of f 2, g i,—but there are too
many deficiencies to be noticed with the hope ofhaving them supplied
by the discovery of another defective copy—yet containing the leaves
here wanted. We shall therefore conclude the article by observ-
ing that the signatures, in sixes, extend to y, z, 9; and, afterwards,
from A to I. These signatures have a peculiarity of being designated
only by the letter beneath—as a, b, or c; and the numbers, i, ij, iij,
iiij, v, and vi, are impressed nearly in the centre of the right side
margin, above them. On the recto of I iiij, we read the colophon,
thus :
fE $)crc cntiptfj tfji£ prc.scnt cronp
cfc of <£nglont!c toptfj tfjc fnttc of t\y
tncjsf: compilcti in a fioofiC/ t aloo em
prpnteti Rn onc fomtpme fcofc mapftcr
of fapnt 3Uf)oiio. on tnfjoo^ goufe gob
fjauc mcrcp/ C 3fnti nctucip in tfjc ptt
of our lorD goti. . €€€€. frrTrbij*
cnprpntiti at 3®egtmc£tre fip Wpnkpn
tsc 3©orUc.