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CATALOGUE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS.

1464."[1] There are only six copies known: three perfect, of which this is one. Measurement, 101/2 in. by 73/4 in. Folio. No place or date. (Bruges, 1476?)—Her Majesty the Queen.

157. The Game and Play of Chess Moralised: ten copies known; four of them perfect. This one wants a leaf of dedication; slightly wormed: known as the "bankes" copy; dated last day of March, 1474, which probably refers to the completion of the translation. Folio. (Bruges, 1475?)—Mr. Quaritch.

158. Higden's Polychronicon: Lilly's copy: imperfect: twenty-eight copies known; five only perfect. Folio. Westminster, 1482—Sir W. Tite, M.P.

159. The Book which the Knyght of the Toure made: six copies known; four perfect, including this one: known as "Corser's copy." Measure, 103/4 in. by 71/2 in. Folio. Westminster, 1484—Mr. Quaritch.

160. Fables of Æsop. Woodcuts: perfect: only two other copies known, both imperfect: translation dated 1483. Folio. Westminster, (1484?)—Her Majesty the Queen.

161. The Doctrinal of Sapience: unique copy: printed on vellum: and has an additional chapter on "negligences happening in the mass." Eight other copies known, all on paper: three of them perfect. Folio. (Westminster, 1489?)—Her Majesty the Queen.

162. The Book of Faytes of Arms: imperfect, wanting last five leaves. Measure, 101/2 in. by 7 in.: twenty copies known; eleven perfect. Folio. Westminster, 1489—Her Majesty the Queen.

163. Another copy: imperfect, wanting first two leaves, which are supplied in fac-simile: fine condition. Measure, 101/2 in. by 71/4 in. Folio. Westminster, 1489—Sir W. Tite, M.P.

164. The Myrrour of the Worlde: second edition. Woodcuts. Dated as the first: perfect: very clean, and large, measuring 101/8 in. by 73/4 in: eleven copies known; eight perfect. Folio. Westminster (1481). 1490?—Sir W. Tite, M.P.

165. Another copy: also perfect. Measure, 103/4 in. by 71/2 in. Folio. Westminster (1481). 1490?—The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

166. The Dictes and Sayinges: third edition: dated as the first: im- perfect, wanting four leaves at end. Measure, 3/8 in. by 75/8 in: seven copies known; three being perfect. Folio. Westminster (1477) 1490? The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

167. The Golden Legend: first edition. Woodcuts. Imperfect, wanting 34 leaves. The largest co|)y known, measuring 151/4 in. by 101/2 in.: twenty-nine copies known: none perfect. Large folio. Westminster, 1483—The Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

168. Quatuor Sermons: on the Lord's Prayer, &c. Imperfect, wanting last nine leaves: five copies known; only one perfect: second edition. Folio. Westminster (1491)—Mr. Addington.

Wynkyn de Worde: b. ———, d. 1534. Caxton's chief workman and successor, naturalised in 1496. He commenced to print on his own

  1. ↑ If this date referred, as it has generally been taken to do, to the printing of the work, Caxton would be the first French printer, as well as the first English.
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