BEIN Ih T215 +C630: Imperfect: A1 (blank? wanting); engraved t.p. slightly mutilated. Armorial bookplate: Aldenham House, Herts. Autograph: Henry H. Gibbs, St. Dunstans, 1860, bought of Libby., BEIN Osborn fpb42: 30 cm. Bookplate: A[rthur] L[ytton] S[ells]. Autograph: Charles Cotton. Autograph: Ber[esford] Cotton. Autograph: Jane [Cotton]. Ms. annotations on endpapers and in text. From the library of Henry Huth. Printed waste used in binding., BEIN Osborn fpb62: Imperfect: 2Q4 torn at fore-edge with some loss of text. Bookplate: Robert S. Pirie. Manuscript corrections, underlining, and notes throughout., Signatures: A-N⁶ O² 2A-2Q⁶ 2R⁴ 2S² 3A-3K⁶, ²3A-3L⁶ ²3M⁸., First leaf (A1) is blank, the engraved title page is a singleton and inserted following it., Added title page, engraved by T. Cockson with portrait of author in lower center., Not in fact a complete edition of the author's works; a number of which had been previously published are omitted., With woodcut illustrations and portraits., Numerous errors in pagination., Printers' names from STC: "Beale printed quires A, 2A-2S, and 3A-3K; Allde printed B-O; Alsop and Fawcett printed ²3A-3M"., and Partly in verse.
Publisher:
Printed by J.B. [i.e. John Beale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcett] for Iames Boler, at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Churchyard
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi
Description:
In Middle English., All corners repaired, not affecting main text block. Approximately 34 missing leaves; replaced by manuscript copies of the missing text in a modern cursive., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: rubricated. Some marginal note initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Onuphrio Muralto = Horace Walpole., The first state of the title-page, 1790, is found in thin paper copies, with uncorrected text, possibly for local sale., At least 2 copies on vellum have title-page in state 2, and text of the cancels., Half-title: Edwards's edition of the Castle of Otranto., BEIN: Vellum binding by Edwards of Halifax., and 25.5 cm. Frontispiece A and B. First leaf wanting. Extra-illustrated, including: folding map, drawings by F. Miller and G.P. Harding; 6 plates published by Harding in 1793; frontispiece of Sivrac's translation, 1795; Miel's plates from Berlin edition, 1794; Kirgate's notes; 2 trade cards.
Publisher:
Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London
