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many small woodcuts; very large and fine copy in russia
extra, gilt edges, from the Osterley collection

£ 8. d.

1527 150 00

another copy, equally fine but not so large; brown

morocco extra, gilt edges

See ante RIVERS, No. 92

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1527 110 00

102 CAXTON. RECUYELL. Fol. 1 title, under a woodcut: THE recuyles or gaderi | ge to gyder of ŷ hysto- | ryes of Troye how it was destroyed z brent | twyes by ŷ puyssaunt Hercules z ý thyrdez generall by grekes. On the reverse: Here foloweth the table This table ends on fol. 4b, column 2. Fol. 5a, column 1: Here foloweth the recuyell or hysto- rye of Troye This heading occupies twelve lines. Beneath it: HEre begynneth the volume entytled and named & recuyell of the hystoryes of Troye, | composed. . | .. by the ryght venerable Raoul le Feure preest z chapellayne | Phylyppe duke of Bourgoyne . In the a thousande. CCCC.lxiiij. And translated .. by Wyllyam Caxton. Fol. 202b, column 2 : Thus endeth the boke of the recu- | les or syege of Troye' Enprynted in.| London in Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne by Wyuken de Worde. The yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC. | and. iij. Under this Caxton's small device as used by Wynkyn de Worde with his own name.

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Smallest folio, 202 leaves, double columns, 42 lines to the column; unfoliated but having signatures (A-Z and Aa-Kk in sixes, which do not include the four preliminary leaves); with numerous very rude woodcuts; olive morocco extra, by Lewis, with the book-label of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (about 1827) 1503 135 00

Second edition of the famous Recuyell.-There is an inscription on the title-page, written about 1570: "Maria Herona est verus possessor huius libri Mrs. Mary Heron oweth this booke."

This volume is excessively rare. There exist only about three or four other perfect copies; even imperfect copies are as few.

THE RECUYELL of the Histories of Troye . . a new edition of the first book printed in English, 2 vols. 4to. in vellum wrappers 1892 Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, from the Caxton volume of

1474.

103 FABIAN (Robert) (1450-1512). The Chronicle of Fabian, whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories, newly perused. And continued from the beginnyng of Kyng Henry the seuenth, to thende of Queene Mary, 1559. Mense Aprilis. Imprinted at London, by Jhon Kyngston. 2 vols. in 1, small folio, black letter, BEST EDITION, brown morocco, by Bedford 1559 The continuation ends with the coronation and first Parliament of Elizabeth.

990

615 0

104 ANONYMOUS, about 1490-1500. ASTROLOGICAL AND OTHER MISCELLANIES, MSS. in 1 vol. small 4to. stamped calf, from the Ashburnham Library

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1490-1615 1. Pages 1-12. An acephalous Astrological treatise, beginning "thou doth with the 10, so do with the 5. Howe to knaw of wat schal hape to the at the place qwer thou intendith to go to.. Apparently in Scottish orthography About 1490 2. Pp. 13-20. Esop's Fables in Meter. Anth. Rous. These pages contain the first thirteen Fables. The continuation is added here and there throughout the volume upon. blank spaces About 1615 3. Pp. 21-56. Another Astrological treatise in the same handwriting and orthography as the first one. Beginning "Qwho so intendis to knaw the effects of the planets that sall fall . About 1490

4. Pp. 53-66. Continuation of Rous's translation of Esop

5. Pp. 67-110. Astrological Fables in red and black, apparently a continuation of No. 3

6. Pp. 70-105. On the blank spaces Rous's Esop is continued

7. Pp. 111-117. Continuation of the early Astrological Fables. The heading of p. 111 is "Tabula met arcus diurni ad latitudinem Cantabrig. p. signis septentrionalibus. The heading p. 117 is "Radices planetarum secundum tabulas Mgri Iohis Holbruke pro anno xpi 1476 ..

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8. Pp. 118-120 and 133. The Farcical Dialogue of Cuffe, Ruffe and Bande performed at Cambridge. In Rous's handwriting About 1615 9. Pp. 121-132. Continuation of the Astrological Fables, ending "Finit feliciter

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10. Pp. 134-136. Continuation of the Astrological treatise with "Ascensiones signorum," etc.

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11. P. 136. Sixteen lines of verse, beginning "Hence all ye vaine delightes.. including the line "places which pale passion loves and ending with "For nothing is so sweet as Melancholy." This is in Rous's handwriting

12. Pp. 137-150. Husbandry (Monthly). In Rous's hand.

13. Pp. 151-164. Secretes for Gardening, Arte of Grafting. In Rous's hand

14. Pp. 166-180. Booke of Laces (Fringe Lace, etc.). In Rous's hand. 105 THE AUTHOR OF THE NUTBROWN MAID, First Edition, about 1490-1500. ARNOLD'S LONDON CHRONICLE, First Edition. Foll. 1-4 (a blank leaf and three leaves of Table) wanting. Fol. 5a: THe names of ye balyfs. Custos Mayers. and sherefs of ye Citefo (sic) London from the tyme of kynge Richard the first called cure de lyon..

Small folio, not quite perfect, dampstained and flabby, some leaves defective and mended; vellum cover, with morocco back, from the libraries successively of the Rev. Edward Betham (King's College, Cambridge), about 1750; of William Cole, of Milton, Cambridgeshire, in 1769; of the Shakespearean scholar, Dr. Richard Farmer, about 1780; of John Towneley, about 1800; and of Thomas Jolley in 1815

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S. n. (printed at Antwerp by Jan van Doesborch, 1503) 14 0 0 Four printed leaves are wanting; the first ten and the last two leaves are defective. A complete copy should consist of 130 printed leaves. Here we have 126 printed leaves. The full set of signatures should be A one blank and three printed leaves, A eight leaves, B four; C, D, E, in eights; F-Q in sixes; R eight leaves; S and T in sixes; V five leaves. The missing leaves are the first sheet A, and the first leaf of signature V.

The famous ballad of the Nutbrowne Maide appeared here for the first time. It occupies leaf N6, Oi and Oii.

106 ARNOLD'S Chronicle, A SOUND, LARGE AND PERFECT COPY, 131 leaves including the rare blank leaf at the beginning; in old russia, from the Wilbraham collection

(1503) 95 00

A wholly perfect copy of this book, such as here described, is one of the rarest things in English literature. From some scribbling on the first front leaf, it appears to have belonged about 1610 to the first and only Lord Knollys.

This

107 ARNOLD'S CHRONICLE, Second Edition. Fol. 1 a blank cut away.
Fol. 2a: IN this boke | is conteined | ye names of the baylyfs |
Custose ma yers and she | refs of ye cy|te of london |
heading and the Table which follows occupy three leaves. Fol. 5a: THe
names of the Baylyfs. Custos. Mayres and Serefs of the cyte of
London . . Fol. 135a, last two lines of the second column: tokyn of
good loue and accorde whi- | che was done.

4to. 135 leaves chiefly in double columns, with 42 lines to the column;
with woodcut initials; fine copy in dark morocco by Bedford

£ 8. d.

S. n. (Peter Treveris, 1521) 21 0 0 The peculiar sh of Peter of Treves shows that this volume is from his press. Ít is more correctly printed than the Antwerp edition of 1503.

The signatures are A four leaves, B eight, C four, B four, C-E in eights, F-Q in sixes, R eight, S and T in sixes, V five leaves 135 leaves. The reason why it has four leaves more than its original is that the Annals at the beginning are continued down to 1520.

II. THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND 1300-1600

1. The Bible

John Wickliffe, 13..-1384. (See ante Nos. 17-20)

108 WYKLYFFITE BIBLE, the second issue, PERFECT. Fol. 1: The ploge on

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Genesis. Brop' Ambrose bryngynge fulli þi little giftis to me.
prologues end on fol. 5. Fol. 6, blank, with an inscription added: This
Booke I will (god willinge) leaue for an heireloome to my right heires
of Bramhal. William Dauenporte 1620. Fol. 7: In pe bygynnyng
god made of nouzt heuene and erpe . . Fol. 71 .. here bigynnep
Iosue. And it was doon aftir þe deep of moises seruant of pe lord pat
pe lord spak to iosue .. Fol. 177: . . here bigynnep pe saut' which
is red comonly in chirchis. Fol. 197. . Here endip pe sauter here
bigynnen puerbis . . Fol. 324: . . Here endip pe oolde testament
blessid be pe holi trinite Amē z here bigynnep pe newe testament. þe
prologe vp on matheu. Mathew pat was of iudee as he is set first i
ordre of pe gospelleris: so he wroot first pe gospel i iudee and fro pe
office of a tolgaderere he was clepid to god. Fol. 404 . . Here
endip pe Apocalips: blessid be Almy3ti god. Amen. Below is an
inscription by a sixteenth century owner: I syr Henry fayer first dyd
begyne to rede thys boke the fourt day off february and I dyd rede. yt
over from the begynyng vnto the endyng in xxvi dayes per me dm
Henrim fayer Año dni M° vo lx° xvio

Folio, in a red morocco binding of the beginning of this century

About 1425
The only perfect copy known of the complete English Bible as issued by John
Purvey Wyklyffe's follower.

THE HOLY BIBLE, contained in the Old and New Testaments, with
the Apocryphal Books in the earliest English versions made from the
Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers, edited by the Rev.
Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederic Madden, 4 vols. imp. 4to. blue mor-
occo extra, gilt edges
Oxford, 1850

The only complete edition of the Wycliffite Bible in its various issues, based on the collation of about 120 MSS. made during a period of twenty-two years. The two texts are given in parallel columns; that is, the one ascribed to Wyckliffe and his own immediate circle, and the one of some twenty years later of which the chief editor was John Purvey.

William Tyndale, 1484-1536

110 TESTAMENT. Facsimile Texts: the first printed English New Testament translated by William Tyndale, photolithographed from the unique fragment in the Grenville Collection, edited by Arber. Small 4to. bds.

1871

The original is a fragment consisting of 31 leaves, the only survival of an edition printed at Cologne in 1526.

000

500

0 12 6

111 NEW TESTAMENT. Title: THE NEWE | TESTA- | MENT | in Englyshe [by Tyndale] and in | Latin of Erasmus | Transla- | tion. | NOVVM TESTAMEN- TVM ANGLICE ET LATINE. Anno dni. 1549. This intitulation printed within a woodcut border. On the reverse: The bokes contay- ned in the newe Testamente. . . Fol. 292 (marked CC.lxxxxi): . . The ende of the newe | Testamente. | Here folowe the Epistles taken out of the olde Testamente, whiche are red in the churche after the vse of Salysbury | vpon certayne dayes of the yeare. Fol. 300b: . . Here endethe the Epystles of the olde testament. Foll. 301-304 contain the Table of the Pystles and Gospels, at the end of which on 304b is the colophon: Thus endeth the newe Testa- | ment both in Englyshe z in Laten, of mayster Eras- | mus translacyō, with the Pystles take out of ŷ Olde testamēt. Set forth with | the Kynges moste gracyous lycence, and Imprynted by Wyllyam Powell | dwellynge in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George nexte to saynt Dun- stons Churche. The yere of our Lorde . M.CCCCC. | xlix . . . . . | GOD SAVE THE KYNGE.

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Small 4to. the English and the Latin printed collaterally on each page, the former in Black letter, the latter in Roman; the title in facsimile and the margins of fol. 2 mended; old English black morocco gilt (bound about 1660)

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1549 28 0 0

Dunn Gardner's (which had been Lea Wilson's) copy, having a facsimile title like this one, sold for £35.

Title: THE NEW
Couerdale and

112 TESTAMENT. TESTA- |MENT Diligently | Translated by Myles conferred with the translacion of | Willyam Tyndale, with the necessary Concordances | truly alleged. | AN. M.D.XLIX. 12mo. a portion of the surface of the title-page, and a part of the last leaf, torn away; in the original calf binding, enclosed in a Rein. Wolf, 1549 12 12 0

case

This volume, consisting of Gospels and Acts, was issued and bound before the second volume came from the press (Epistles and Revelations). It consists of 256 leaves in signatures (), †, A-—Z, Aa-Gg, all in eights. The book is one of excessive rarity in whatever condition. It is Tyndale's text slightly touched by Coverdale, just as in the preceding and the following article.

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.113 TESTAMENT. Title: The newe Testament of our Sauiour Iesu Christe. Faythfully tran- | slated out of the Greke, |..|. . Here a woodcut portrait of Edward VI, and under it a motto from Mathew xiii in Latin and in English. On the reverse: The copy of the byll assigned by the kynges honorable counsell, for the Au- ctorisinge of this Testamente. | . Fol. 2a Jugge's Epistle To the most puysaunt and mightye Prince Edward the syxt. Foll. 3-8 contain the Calendar, 9-14 the Almanack and Table, 15 A perfecte supputation, and 16 An exhortation . . with the life of St. Matthew on the reverse. On leaf 201 end the Acts of the Apostles; leaves 202-204 contain a description of the Lande of promys with a map, etc., and a colophon on leaf 204. Leaf 205 contains the title of the Epistles; on leaf 206 they begin, and end with the Apocalypse on leaf 335a. On 335b begin the Epistles of the old Testament which end on 337b. A table follows, and ends on 339a. On the reverse of 339 is the printer's mark and the colophon: Imprynted at London by Rycharde Iugge, dwel- | lynge in Paules churche yarde at the signe of the byble. With the kynge his mooste gratious lycence, and priuilege, forbyddynge all other men to print or cause to be printed, this, or any other | Testament in Englyshe.

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Small 4to. Black Letter, 339 leaves, with numerous woodcuts, includ. ing the curious representation of the Devil as a man with a tail and a wooden leg; the title, the seventh leaf from the end, and the last leaf in facsimile, the corner of a leaf mended and made up; blue morocco, gilt edges R. Jugge, 1552 22 0 0 another copy, larger and finer; the title-page in facsimile; other

wise perfect, with the margins of some leaves mended; brown morocco, by
BEDFORD

£ 8. d.

1552 33 0 0

This edition, printed in London by Jugge, contains some of the same large flourished letters as have been remarked in Matthew's Bible of 1537, and in the Lubeck Low German Bible of 1533-4.--The facsimile of the title in the second copy was made from one of the copies which were issued with the reverse blank,

Miles Coverdale, 1487-1567

115 BIBLE, COVERDALE, FIRST EDITION.

Title, within a woodcut

border: BIBLIA The Bible, that is, the holy Scripture
of the Olde and New Testament, faith- | fully and truly
translated out of Douche and' Latyn | in to Englishe. |
M.D.XXXV. | S. Paul . . . The reverse of this title is blank.
Fol. 2a Unto the most victorious Prynce | and oure
most gracyous soueraigne Lorde, kynge Henry the
eyght,. Line 13: your dearest iust wyfe, and most
vertuous Pryncesse, Quene Anne, Amen. Fol. 4b: A
prologue. Myles Couerdale Unto the Christen reader. |

Fol. 76: The bokes of the hole Byble, how they are
named. . Fol. 86: The fyrst boke of Moses
Fol. 9a (numbered Fo. i): The first boke of Mo- | ses
called Genesis. | . . Fol. 99, title: The seconde par- tie.
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Fol. 100a (numbered Fo. ij): The boke of Josua Fol.

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Fol. 272

Fol. 373, title:

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Fol. 456,

219a (numbered Fo. i): The boke of Job .. Fol. 271,
title: All the Prophetes in Englishe. |
(numbered Fo. ij): The prophet Esay.
APOCRIPHA The bokes and treatises
a blank cut away. Fol. 457, title: The new testament.
Fol. 569b, colophon: Prynted in the yeare of oure
LORDE M.D.XXXV. | and fynished the fourth daye of
October. A large folding map of the Holy Land between
foll. 98 and 99.

Small folio, having leaf 2 in facsimile by the first Harrisse,
the initial I of Genesis and the few words behind it
also in facsimile, a little portion of the map and a small
corner bit of the twentieth leaf repaired by facsimile; other-
wise A PERFECT COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH BIBLE, bound
in blue morocco by Charles Lewis
(Zürich?) 1535 1050 0 0

This copy, formerly belonging to Lea-Wilson, afterwards to Dunn Gardiner, and lastly to Lord Ashburnham, is superior to any other known copy except the Leicester and the Osterley copies. The titlepage was, when Lea Wilson owned it, supplied for him in facsimile from the Leicester copy, by Harris, and that facsimile leaf is still retained to show the variation between the genuine title now inserted and the Leicester title. In the first place there is a list of contents on the back of the Leicester title, while the page is left absolutely blank in our genuine title. In the second place, among the inscriptions on the woodcuts we find the words Go once and Gospel twice. The three capitals G appear in Harrisse's facsimile of the Leicester title in a peculiar Gothic shape resembling S; while in our genuine first title it is a true G in which the curves are divided by two parallel vertical strokes. Now as the London-printed title retains in its border the

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