GOLDSCHMIDT, E. Ph. Medieval Texts and their First Appearance in Print, London: printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1943, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, author's copy, with one-page typed list of "future corrections," letters of appreciation and press reviews all bound in at end, also with loosely inserted printed leaf of "Corrigenda," contemporary brown half morocco, author's morocco bookplate.

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GOLDSCHMIDT, E. Ph. Medieval Texts and their First Appearance in Print, London: printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1943, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, author's copy, with one-page typed list of "future corrections," letters of appreciation and press reviews all bound in at end, also with loosely inserted printed leaf of "Corrigenda," contemporary brown half morocco, author's morocco bookplate.

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The author's list of "future corrections," though relating to just two mistakes, is a little more detailed and characteristic in tone than the "Corrigenda" that was eventually published in 1962. "I owe an apology," he states in the former, "to the shade of Thomas Wright whom I accused of 'haphazard carelessness' on p. 38 for asserting in his Poems attributed to Walter Mapes (1841) that the APOCALYPSIS GOLLIAE was first edited by John Bale. I find that he was quite justified in saying so ... in consequence, my attempt to give an explanation for Wright's 'mistake' is most uncalled for ... Instead of blaming Wright for a careless error, I might more justifiably have reproved him for not suspecting that the little pamphlet which he found in the Bodleian Library was of extraordinary rarity and for referring to it quite casually as 'Bale's edition,' without giving us a little more precise details about it."

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