Caxton william printer (7 Ergebnisse)

Stipple engraving, from Biographical Magazine, fine delicate portrait with biographical information in letterpress below.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Facsimile edition of second edition published in 1489, of which the only known copy is in the Pepys Library at Cambridge. 8vo, unpaginated pp142 + frontispiece portrait of Pepys with a four page brief history of the edition by J. A. W. Bennett, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English in the University of Cambridge to rear. Hardcover issued without dust jacket in slipcase. Slipcase of brown paper covered boards with blue felt and silk ribbon within in poor condition split on top and side, however it has done it's job of protecting the apparently one off binding. Full light brown calf binding with tooled gilt flowers tipped in green to both boards and 5 raised bands and leather title label to spine in very good condition with only a few small marks and slight rubbing to side of spine. Inside all pages with top edge gilt in beautiful near fine unread condition. An excellent one off copy of the facsimile of the William Caxton printed "The Historie of Reynart the Foxe" which was translated from Van den vos Reynaerde in 1481.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Original stapled white paper covers with William Caxton printer's device to the front cover. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Contains 8 pages of text (including the covers). Kraus formed a business that reprinted scientific and scholarly journals and reference books. SIGNED 'P. Kraus 3. iii. 77' inside the front cover and in near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper). …

Cambridge, C.U.P., 1906, in-8°, (64) nn pp , printedon high quality paper in a limited edition of 250 copies. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt title on front cover. Nice copy without qany library markings, partially unopened.

An English incunable leaf from the press of William Caxton comprising the opening of book five, chapter twenty-two from the first edition of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon in English translation by John Trevisa. Higden began compiling his chronicle, a universal history of world events from Creation to the reign of Edward III, with a focus on the British Isles, after joining the Abbey of St Werburgh's in Chester in 1299, where he lived until his death in 1363/4. The Latin text survives in a short, intermediate, and a long edition, reflecting the various iterations and continuations the work went through in Higden's lifetime, before it was translated into English by the Cornish priest John Trevisa in the 1380s. The Polychronicon 'offered to the educated and learned audience of fourteenth-century England a clear and original picture of world history based upon medieval tradition, but with a new interest in antiquity, and with the early history of Britain related as part of the whole' (ODNB). Its popularity is attested by the fact the Latin text survives in over 118 manuscripts, and in fragments in 9 more, with Trevisa's English edition preserved in another 14. This edition by William Caxton marks the first appearance of the text in print, in either Latin or English form. Our leaf contains the end of chapter twenty-one and the opening of chapter twenty-two of book five, charting the years after the arrival of the Danes in England. The chapter opens with the restoration to the throne of Justinian II (668/9-711), the last Byzantine Emperor of the Heraclian dynasty, and the pilgrimage of the Mercian King Coenred (d.709) to Rome, who abdicated his throne in favour of his nephew Coelred. First edition; single leaf; folio (26 x 18 cm); text in English, rubricated in red, with MS chapter initial, contemporary marginalia, further annotations to margins in pen in an early hand, a little soiled, with extremities a little frayed with slight loss to corners; loose in a mount, with accompanying printed transcription and with modern English rendering, and the original printed catalogue 'William Caxton and the 1482 Polychronicon' by George D. Painter. cf. ESTC S106586; STC 9991; Blades p.22; Pforzheimer 489; Duff & Hellinga 173.…

Two pages, 12mo, chipped and with small closed tears, with loss of half a line of text and some letters, bottom edge turned up, aging. "I beg to offer you according to your reque[st] a list of books printed by Caxton, in the library at Ashburnham House with their imperfections and sizes. | I have taken the liber[ty] to send also such not[es] [half line lost] will I thi[nk] apply to the particular copies under description[.] Certainty is often difficult to arrive at, and should your lordship incline to favour me with any corrections or emendations in the accompanying notes, they will be greatly esteemed and carefully noted by . . . ". WITH: The notes in Blades' hand referred to in this letter, 3pp., 12mo, bifolium, chipped, sunned and turned edges, etc, minor losses, signed "William Blades | 21/4/58", commencing, "The Book of divers ghost[ly matters printed by Caxton in 4to consists of three separate tracts meant evidently to be bound in one volume, but with the signatures arranged . . . " He goes on to list the three titles, and then lists the libraries which hold them (Cambridge Public Library, Althorpe, Ham House, Durham, giving information about the copies, including condition and sale price. He adds that there is a copy for sale, 2nd tract only, in perfect condition and modern binding. He concludes that "The above are the only copies I have seen." Note: (Quaritch, "Book Collectors", "[Ashburnham's] series of books from the press of Caxton he reckoned as second only to that at Althorp among private libraries.".…

Hammersmith (Middlesex), published by the Kelmscott Press, 27th April 1893., large in-4°, xxii pp + 450 pp + (ii)nn pp. Chapter titles printed in red. With decorative woodcut double page title, woodcut ornamental borders and initials designed by William Morris. One of 300 paper copies , out of a total edition of 306 copies. Printed in red and black in Troy and Chaucer types. Bound in original limp vellum with yabb edges and silk ties (ties partly broken, as usual after more then 100 years), title in gilt lettering on spine. Some sporadic dustsoiling but a fine copy. One of the copies donated by Mrs. William Morris after the death of her husband ; with a printed note stating the gift tipped on to the first paste down. Reprinted from the Caxton edition of 1481. Petersen A15.…