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London: By Wynkyn de Worde, 27 August, 1527. NINTH ENGLISH EDITION (1st 1483). Title and imprint from colophon. Hardcover. Fine. An excellent, complete copy bound in late 18th c. russia, gilt, hinges neatly repaired, corners bumped. Illustrated with a full page woodcut on leaf A1 showing an assembly of saints and martyrs, and 85 woodcuts in the text. Wynkyn de Worde's woodcut printer's device (incorporating Caxton's initials) on verso of final leaf. Text printed in Black Letter, in 2 cols of 46 lines. Title and imprint from colophon. Provenance: George Henry Arnold of Ashby Lodge (1791-1844), bookplate on front paste-down. The text is in very fine condition with minor blemishes as follows: scattered light spotting, discreet marginal repairs on leaves Q6, Q8, and Oo4. Tiny single wormhole in the opening leaves, short worm-trail and small wormholes in blank margins of closing gatherings. Other tiny wormholes in the text of the last few gatherings. A few minor marginal repairs. Full-page woodcut, first…
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The legend named in latyn Legēda aurea. that is to saye in englysshe the Golden legende ... : which werke hath ben diligētly amended in divers places where as grete nede was
by Jacobus de Voragine [Jacopo da Voragine] (ca. 1229-1298); Caxton, William (ca. 1422-1491), translator, editor, and contributor
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The Works of Ben Jonson, Which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One. To which is added A Comedy, Called the New Inn. With Additions never before Published. Neque, me ut miretur turba laboro: Contentus paucis lectoribus
by Jonson, Benjamin (ca. 1572-1637)
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London: Thomas Hodgkin for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Basset, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, and G. Conyers, 1692. FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTED EDITION. With the engraved frontispiece portrait of Jonson as Poet Laureate, by William Elder after Robert Vaughn, bound opposite the title. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary speckled calf, very nicely re-backed, boards lightly pitted, board edges and corners bumped (with some small losses to the leather), boards ruled with a double gold filet. The spine is richly tooled in gold, with two citron labels. The contents are in fine condition with scattered light spotting and some rust marks due to impurities in the paper and minor defects as follows: Two repaired tears to blank upper margin of portrait leaf (not touching the image), leaf F4 with marginal defect, O4 with small hole in blank margin, Cc2 with a natural paper flaw affecting a few words, bifolium Zz2-3 browned as usual, Bb4-Cc2 lightly toned, leaf Nnn2 more heavily spotted, small rust hole in leaf Sss3…
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His Majesties Most Gracious and Royal Commission for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners
by DEBTORS' PRISONS. SOCIAL JUSTICE
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London: Printed for M.D. and are to be sold by Nathaniel Webb, at the Royal Oak, in St. Pauls Church-yard, neer the little north-door of St. Pauls Church, 1664. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy (a few sall rust marks, final leaf dusty, verso of last text leaf lightly foxed.) The first leaf is a full-page woodcut of the royal arms. The final leaf (bound at the beginning in this copy) bears the woodcut printer's device ("Royall Oake") and type ornaments. Rare: North American copies: Harvard (4 copies), Huntington, Indiana, Newberry, Illinois. A royal pronouncement by King Charles II appointing members to serve on a commission, first established by Queen Elizabeth in 1586, "for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners", that is, those debtors who "were truly and indeed poor, distressed and miserable, and wanted means to satisfie their creditors" as opposed to those "obstinate and wilful debtors" who had the means but not the will to pay their…
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