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L.A. Book Fair
Known + Spellman
Feb. '94
$35.00

Caxton, William translator. William Morris
The history of Reynard the Foxe. Kelmscott Press.
Hammersmith Dec 15 1892 (issued 1893) Jan. 25 Large quarto.
Ref: Ranson, Private Presses p 326, Sparling #10, Cockerell 10
Peterson A 10. Tomkinson 10
86 leaves [a]4b-l8 m2. [2] iij - v[uj] I story begins, 2 pages - 162 [163-4]
Edition limited to 310 copies, 300 at 3 guinees on handmade paper (Batchelor)
+ 10 copies [inserted] at 15 guineas [end inserted] on vellum. Printed in Troy type (with glossary
in Chaucer type in red + black. WOodcut title page
+ facing page with woodcut page border, numerous 8 line
+ smaller intial capitals + partial borders, printer's
device. Binding - full limp vellum, yapp edges, gilt letter spine.
Caxton translated from the prose version printed by Lecu in 1478 - Reprint ed from the ed. of 1481. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling.
In his bibliography of the Keilmscott Press, Sparling
quotes Morris's note in Quaritch's catalogue regarding
this book: "This translation of Caxton's is one of the
Very best of his works as to style; and being translated
from a kindred tongue (the Dutch) is delightful as mere language.
In its rude joviality, + simple + direct delineations of
character, it is a thoroughly good representative of
the famous beast epic." Published by B. Quaritch.

Leaf: 287x295mm. Text 33 lines x 130mm.
k3 p. 133+4 - How Ysegrym The Wolf proferd his gloue
-watermark present to the foxe for the fyght wyth hym,
capitulo XXXV. Flower (2) paper (16x22 inches)
p. 129 A fayr parable of the foxe and the wulf, capitulo xxxiiij
p. 135 How the foxe toke up the glove, and how the kynge sette
to them daye and felde for come + deo theyr bataylle
capitulo xxxvj,
ends on p. 156, 160 blank, then p. 161-3 (A table of some
strange words.)
-based on a Dutch prose rendering of Reinaert's historie, a
14th C recension + continuation of Reinaert de Vos.
- Borders 5a + 7; side, corner + 3/4 borders; 6 + 8 line initials; chapter, title, explicit in red.