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William CAXTON (1422-1491) -- WINSHIP, George Parker. William Caxton and the First English Press ... Together with an Original Leaf of the Polychronicon. New York: Edmund Byrne Hackett, The Brick Row Book Shop, 1938. 4° (316 x 238mm). Title in red and black, original small folio leaf from the Polycronicon within recessed panel inside lower cover, with paragraph marks in red, and two contemporary marginalia in black and one in red, contemporary blind-stamped morocco by Krumin, Boston, chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Boston University Libraries (bookplate, deaccession letter provided).
With 3 leaves from Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, including two of the German 1493 edition, one with hand-coloured woodcuts and one with a double-page uncoloured view of Erfurt (with a few small wormholes). (4)
With 3 leaves from Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, including two of the German 1493 edition, one with hand-coloured woodcuts and one with a double-page uncoloured view of Erfurt (with a few small wormholes). (4)
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