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GAGUINUS, Robertus (1433?-1501). Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum. Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius, with additional material by Cornelius Gerardus. Paris: André Bocard, for Durand Gerlier, 31 March 1497/1498.
Third edition of Gaguin's important chronicle of French history, reprinted from the second edition with the addition of Gerardus’s material at the end. Gaguin, who had complained of the many printing errors in the first edition, printed by Pierre Le Dru in ‘1499’ (i.e. 1495), remained involved with the production of the subsequent editions, for each of which he brought his chronicle up to date. HC 7411; GW 10453; BMC VIII 156; Bod-inc G-008; ISTC ig00013000; Goff G-13.
Chancery folio (275 x 200mm). 114 leaves, with the last blank, woodcut device on title printed in red, numerous woodcut initials, one in red (a few words erased from a3 with two tiny associated holes, minor marginal wormhole, some faint marginal stains). 19th-century roan-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, library spine label (lightly rubbed). Provenance: early manuscript annotations – Albertus Pellanas (ownership inscription) – M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library. Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
Third edition of Gaguin's important chronicle of French history, reprinted from the second edition with the addition of Gerardus’s material at the end. Gaguin, who had complained of the many printing errors in the first edition, printed by Pierre Le Dru in ‘1499’ (i.e. 1495), remained involved with the production of the subsequent editions, for each of which he brought his chronicle up to date. HC 7411; GW 10453; BMC VIII 156; Bod-inc G-008; ISTC ig00013000; Goff G-13.
Chancery folio (275 x 200mm). 114 leaves, with the last blank, woodcut device on title printed in red, numerous woodcut initials, one in red (a few words erased from a3 with two tiny associated holes, minor marginal wormhole, some faint marginal stains). 19th-century roan-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, library spine label (lightly rubbed). Provenance: early manuscript annotations – Albertus Pellanas (ownership inscription) – M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library. Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
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