Binding: Rebound in gold- and blind-tooled leather. In brown morocco case, by Riviere & Son., Imperfect: water-stained at beginning., Provenance: Inscription after contents in early sixteenth century/late fifteenth century hand: "Rychard Nayler ys my name and wyth my pene I wryt the same"; the same hand writes other names throughout in the top margin of rectos. Inscription on first leaf: "L Tyrwhitt." Inscription on first flyleaf: "W[illia]m Pownall Lincoln Feb 17th 1726/7.", Signatures: a¹⁰ ²a⁸ B-V⁸ x-z⁸ [et]⁸ 2a-2d⁸ 2e⁴., and Title and imprint from ISTC.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--To 1485--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492., Machlinia, William de, active 1481-1486, printer., and Riviere & Son, binder
Bound with: 3 binding fragments cataloged separately. To view other titles search by call number: Zi 6309, Capital spaces, with guide-letters., Fol. 90b blank., For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Bookplate of Thomas Ewart Marston. Stained; fol. 90 torn and mended, with some damage to text. Bound in old wooden boards, leather back, with brass clasps; clasps wanting. Leaves and strips from vellum manuscripts have been used for end-papers., and Variations from Hain-Cop. have not been noted as Hain had not seen the volume.
BEIN Zi 5720.3: For fuller description see collation-slip in volume.
Subject (Name):
Giustiniani, Leonardo, approximately 1388-1446., Maritnus,--Saint, bishop of Tours,--316?-397?, Nicholas,--Saint, Bp. of Myra., and Symeon, Metaphrastes, fl. 10th cent.