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Sept. 1983
Maggs Bros. London
40L = $60.00
Jacobus de Voragine
The Golden Legend.
Westminster: [Wynkyn de Worde] 20 May 1493 folio
Ref: C6474 Goff J- 150 DeR(C) 107 Duff 410 S.T.C. 24875
Cop: Harv CL HEHL #69798, PML, Trinity College - Oxford. Pr 9691
The historye of al haloven - 441. folio CCCXXVIII Qiiij
Duff #410 436 leaves, 2 col. 43-451. with headlines + foilation (of 8)
Types 1 99mm = Caxton 4* modified
2 114mm = Caxton 8
De Ricci #107 436ff. 4ff no sig, a-e8; F2; f-z8 &8
98 e4; A-Y8; aa-ee8 ff6 gg4
44 lines (216x149mm) - last numbered folio CCCCXXIX
Types 8+4* recast (100mm)
printed by W. de Worde with Caxton's types. 6 - (one - Golden Legend) books are known
to have been printed at the Red Pale before 1494 by W de
Worde.
Blades pp 249-251, n. 93 + 2nd ed. pp 365-66 n. 101
Ames -Dibdin I pp. 193-94 n. 24.

Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 8 Jan. 1498 folio
Ref C6475 Goff J151 Duff 411 S.T.C. 24676.
Cop PML
Duff #411 448 leaves, 2 col. 47 lines with headlines + foliation (272x194mm.)
Types 2 114mm = Caxton 8
4 95mm
6 135mm = Caxton 3
This book is printed on English made John Tate* paper like tha tused
in the Bartholomoeus Anglicus (Duff #40) - Wynkyn de Worde 1495.
(watermark - an 8 pinted star in a circle)
*The 1st english papermill at Hertford (1494-1508). King Henry VII
encouraged Tate by a small award when he visited teh mill in
1498+99. Watermark - 8 pointed star. (1495 - Polyronicon)
W. de Worde wife died in 1498.
of Woerde in Holland probably belonged to the staff of workman which
Caxton brought with him to Westminster when he set up his press there.