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LYNDEWODE, William. Provinciale, seu Constitutiones Angliae. With: Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis Anglicanae, cum subtilissima interpretatione domini Johannis de Athon. [Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius]. Paris: Wolfgang Hopyl for William Bretton in London, 1505.
2 parts in one volume, large 2° (341 x 243mm). Gothic type, printed in red and black. Bretton's large woodcut device (McKerrow 18), device of the Trinity (McKerrow 16) surrounded by small blocks on both titles, large criblé initials throughout, woodcut illustration on A2 of Constitutiones. (Piece cut from upper margin in quires p and q in Provinciale, with some loss of text and headline, replaced in early manuscript.)
Binding: mid-16th-century calf tooled in blind to a panel design, with three rolls comprising the cypher HS and a barrel (head and foot of spine worn, stain on upper cover, but generally in excellent condition). Oldham (IN7, plate 55) lists the roll and attributed it to Oxford. However, the binder can be identified as Hugh Singleton, a London puritan printer, who was also active as a bookbinder between 1548 and 1593. See E. G. Duff, A Century of the English Book Trade (1905) p.148. The barrel-roll is a pun on 'single tun'. The pastedowns are from an early Venice edition of the Lectura Authenticorum by Angelus de Ubaldis.
Provenance: "Will. Hall, Jan. 8 1633. Donum Magistri Dawson" (inscription on title partly erased); Albert Ehrman (Broxbourne Library bookplate); W. R. Jeudwine (bookplate; Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 18 Sept. 1984, lot 88).
This is a reprint of two works, which were first published separately by Bocard in Paris for the English market in 1501 and 1504 (STC 17107 and 17108). The imprint for both works reads 'Venales habentur London, apud bibliopolas in Cimeterio Sancti Pauli' (i.e. Henry Jacob and J. Pelgrim).
2 parts in one volume, large 2° (341 x 243mm). Gothic type, printed in red and black. Bretton's large woodcut device (McKerrow 18), device of the Trinity (McKerrow 16) surrounded by small blocks on both titles, large criblé initials throughout, woodcut illustration on A2 of Constitutiones. (Piece cut from upper margin in quires p and q in Provinciale, with some loss of text and headline, replaced in early manuscript.)
Binding: mid-16th-century calf tooled in blind to a panel design, with three rolls comprising the cypher HS and a barrel (head and foot of spine worn, stain on upper cover, but generally in excellent condition). Oldham (IN7, plate 55) lists the roll and attributed it to Oxford. However, the binder can be identified as Hugh Singleton, a London puritan printer, who was also active as a bookbinder between 1548 and 1593. See E. G. Duff, A Century of the English Book Trade (1905) p.148. The barrel-roll is a pun on 'single tun'. The pastedowns are from an early Venice edition of the Lectura Authenticorum by Angelus de Ubaldis.
Provenance: "Will. Hall, Jan. 8 1633. Donum Magistri Dawson" (inscription on title partly erased); Albert Ehrman (Broxbourne Library bookplate); W. R. Jeudwine (bookplate; Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 18 Sept. 1984, lot 88).
This is a reprint of two works, which were first published separately by Bocard in Paris for the English market in 1501 and 1504 (STC 17107 and 17108). The imprint for both works reads 'Venales habentur London, apud bibliopolas in Cimeterio Sancti Pauli' (i.e. Henry Jacob and J. Pelgrim).