Caxton, William (printer)
Original leaf from his edition of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon
£530
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
[Westminster: William Caxton, 1482]. Folio 193, 25.5 x 18cm, lettre bâtarde, 40 lines and headline, 2 rubricated paraph marks, text begins ‘may not be withoute drede’ and ends ‘made clement bisshop in his stede. Also at’, spotted, closed tear and a few shallow nicks and chips to top edge, verso with old mounting-tabs along inner edge [STC 13438]
Footnote
Caxton's 1482 edition of the Polychronicon was the first complete edition of the text, and followed his 1480 edition of the part relating to Britain only. This leaf contains part of chapter nine of the fourth book, describing the death of Seneca and the Acts of the Apostles. The lot sold with the Scolar Press facsimile edition of The History and Fables of Aesop translated and printed by William Caxton, 1484 (1976, one of 500 copies).