Bod-Inc: Q-007
Quattuor Sermones [English]
Analysis of Content
a1r [Quattuor sermones.] Quatuor sermones. Reprinted from the first edition printed by William Caxton at Westminster, Roxburghe Club, [106] (London, 1883); Quattuor Sermones printed by William Caxton, ed. N. F. Blake, Middle English Texts, 2 (Heidelberg, 1975).
Imprint
Imprint: Westminster: William Caxton, [1487]. Folio.
Remarks: As dated by BMC; Sheppard dates [1483]. Distinct from the earlier edition by typesetting and use of woodcut initials; see C. A. Webb, ‘Caxton's “Quattuor Sermones": a Newly Discovered Edition', in Essays in Honour of Victor Scholderer, ed. Dennis E. Rhodes (Mainz, 1970), 407-25 (edition II), with the Bodleian copies listed at 421.
Collation
Collation: a–c8 d6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: iq00014000
Hain: [Not H]C 7029 (II);
Goff: Goff Q‑14;
BMC: BMC XI;
Proctor: Pr 9653;
Others: de Ricci, Caxton, 85; Duff 299; Needham, Pardoner, 89, no. Cx 85; Sheppard 7391-2; STC 17957 (II).
LCN: 14455937
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