Chronicles of England 2nd edn (Caxton)

Chronicles of England 2nd edn (Caxton): Edition Description

Summary:

    Author: Anonymous
    Title: Chronicles of England
    Place: Westminster
    Printer/Publisher: Caxton, William
    Date: 8 October 1482
    Edition / Issue: 2nd edn
    Main Language: English
    Contents:
      Item 1: Caxton's Prologue and Table of Contents [sig. 2a- sig. 8b]

        Incipit: In the yere of thyncarnacyon of our lord

      Item 2: Chronicles of England (Prologue and twenty-six chapters) [sig. 10a- sig. 182a]

        Incipit: How the land of Englond was first named Albyon

      Item 3: Caxton's Prayer and colophon [sig. 182a]

        Incipit: ... Thus endenth this present book of the Cronycles of Englond | Enprynted by me William Caxton In thabbey of westmestre

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Object Description:

Form: Codex

Format: F°

Ideal collation: (ii-iii)8 a-x8y6. 182 leaves. 1, 9 blank.

Signatures: Signed to the fold with lower-case letter and arabic numeral except the first quire. Leaf f3 is signed e3 in error.

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      Layout:
      • Columns: 1
      • Written Lines: 40
      • Locus: All
      • Overview: The present edition was devised as a page-for-page reprint of the first edition of 10 June 1480, set with the same state of the type. Most of the 360 printed pages therefore end in the same place as the exemplar with the exception of 34 pages outlined in BMC XI p.130.

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