The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres, 2nd (Caxton)

The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres, 2nd (Caxton): Edition Description

Summary:

    Author: de Tigonville, Guillaume
    Title: The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres
    Other Authors: Translated from the French Dits des philosophes, by Anthony Wydeville (or Woodville), Earl Rivers
    Place: Westminster
    Printer/Publisher: Caxton, William
    Date: '18 Nov. 1477' [i.e. 1480]
    Edition / Issue: 2nd
    Main Language: English

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Object Description:

Form: Codex

Material: Paper stocks 59-66

Format: F°

Ideal collation: [a-i8 k6.] 78 leaves, 1, 77, 78 blank. A page-for-page reprint of Caxton's first edition.

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      Layout:
      • Columns: 1
      • Written Lines: 29

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List of Copies:

    • Copies as listed in ISTC
      • UK, London, British Library, C.10.b.2 = IB.55031
      • UK, London, British Library, IB.55032, a fragment of printers' waste, bound with IB.55003
      • UK, London, British Library, Harl.5993/3, a fragment of 13 lines in the Bagford Collection, not in BMC
      • Ireland, Dublin, Trinity College
      • Germany, Göttingen SUB
      • USA, San Marino CA, The Huntington Library (DeR 38.4)
      • USA, Washington DC, Library of Congress, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection

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