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139
No. 20, 1982
California Book Auction Gallerius
$440 (400) Sale 101 #54
Sold Swann Gallery auction
June 84 - $600
sold 1974 - $285
Kurtz, Benjamin P. The Life + Works of William Caxton (c.1422-1491)
with a Historical Rssinder of 15th C England. An original
[inserted] Z 239 G72 1597 Gunst leaf liber Septimus CCCXXXIII 42 3 42 3 Calif Book Club liber Sextus CCLXXXVIII 3r 3 7 [end inserted]leaf from teh Polyeronicon printed by William Caston at
Westminster in the year 1482. A Note by Oscar Lewis + an
appreciation of Caxton by Edwin Grabharn. 53 pp, printed
in red + black. 11 1/2 x9, half cloth + dec. boards. 1 of 297 by
the Grabharn Press.
San Francisco: Book Club of California 1938. (June 15)
BCC #54, GB #292. Printed on mold made paper
in Dupdene Text type with prospectus Leaf 10x7 1/8 72 r2
(Franciscan type) Liber primus xlix, 40 lines
Higden, Randulphus (d. 1364) Black letter, no catchwords.
Polycronicon [Westminster:] William Caxton [after 2 July
1482] f0 in eights. Type 4
[inserted] Hoe pt. 2 #1618 11 1/2 x 8 1/8" [end inserted]Goff H0267 HC8659 Duff172 BeR(C) 49
Cop HEHL, PML, NYPL
(191x121mm) contained 430,000works [inserted] 450 leaves including 5 blanks S.T.C. 13438 Prorzheiner #489 [end inserted]
(95B) Type 4 - a reduced version of his type 2, with shorter side
flourishes + with a few capitals (A,C,D,G,S) resembling his
type 3. With this smaller type Caxton could produce longer
books without unduly increasing the expenditure on paper
which made up about half the todal cost of printing.
Th 1st dated book in Type 4 is the Chronicles of England
(10 June 1480) The full fount consists of 194 sorts,
substantially fewer than Type 2*, Caxton's larges fount
(d. 1364) Higden, a Benedictine monk of St. Werbury's, Chester composed his
universal history, the Polycronicon in the 1320's. More than
100 manuscripts of it are extant. The translator, John
Revisa (1342-1402 1326-1412), was a vicar of Buckley in
Gloucestershire. A number of continuations were added
to Higden's text in the course of the 14th C; and the account
of English history in Caxton's edition is extended down to
Edward IV's reign; this continuation is taken mostly from