Bod-Inc: B-481
Book of Courtesy
Imprint
Imprint: Westminster: [Wynkyn de Worde, 1491-3]. 4°.
Remarks: Ascribed to Wynkyn de Worde on the basis of the printer's device; dated on the basis of the type which was not in use after 1493.
Collation
Types: Type: 120 G.
Line number: 23 lines on ‘Bb'.
Type area: Type area: 138 ×91 mm on ‘Bb'.
Watermarks: Watermark: Crown above an eight-pointed star.
References
ISTC: ib01029600
Hain: HC 4928;
Proctor: Pr 9689;
Others: Blades 94; de Ricci, Caxton, 103; Douce Legacy, no. 114; Duff 54; Sheppard 7425; STC 3304.
LCN: 13911223
Copies
Copy number: B-481(1)
Two leaves only, proofs, one signed Bb, the other unsigned, each printed on one side: the contents of the leaves are noted in John Hodgkin, ‘Proper Terms . . .', Transactions of the Philological Society, Supplement (1907-10), 1-187, at 6, 9, 42, 61; in Rachel Hands, English Hawking and Hunting in ‘The Boke of St. Albans’ (Oxford, 1975), pp. xlviii–xlix; and in David Scott-Macnab, A Sporting Lexicon of the Fifteenth Century: the 'JB Treatise', Medium Aevum Monographs, NS 23 (Oxford, 2003), with this copy referred to at 61-2.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco; bound for the Bodleian Library. Nineteenth-century(?) paper wrappers surrounding leaves.
Size of leaves: 195 × 135 mm.
‘[ ]s' in black ink. Date ‘1676' in black ink. A note by Douce on the inside of the paper wrapper.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834). Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce Fragm. e.4.
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