Home
/
Sale 333: Fine & Rare Books & Manuscripts
/
Catalogue
/
Leaf from the 1482 Polycronicon

Back to Catalogue Auction info

Sale 333: Fine & Rare Books & Manuscripts (#333) 06/08/2006 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 06/08/2006 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #47 Leaf from the 1482 Polycronicon

Click image to enlarge

Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$937.50

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500

Tell a friend Ask a question

Description

Heading:

(Caxton leaf)

Title:

Leaf from the 1482 Polycronicon

Author:

**

Place Published:

[Westminister

Publisher:

William Caxton

Date Published:

1482]

Description:

Single leaf from "Liber quintus", folio 277, printed in red and black. 10½x7½, matted.

Original printed leaf from William Caxton's 1482 edition of Ranulf Higben's "Polychronicon" - a chronicle of world history from Adam and Eve to the Black Death of of 1348. The present leaf begins with a history of Popes Valentinus and Gregory the Fourth. One of the monuments of early English printing.

Condition:

Paper lightly stained, gutter margin irregular, near very good.

Item#:

172120
Shipping info
Terms and conditions

CONTRACTS

All accepted bids are contracts and are considered final and non withdrawable.

BUYER'S PREMIUM

A buyer's premium of 20% will be applied to all purchases.

ONLINE BIDDING

The person posting the bids online has to be the person who has registered for the auction.