A Short Account of the Life and Work of Wynkyn de Worde with a Leaf from the Golden Legend Printed by Him at the Sign of the Sun in Fleet Street, London, the Year 1527.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1949.
Folio, [vi], 15, [2]pp. Quarter cloth over decorative floral paper boards. Paper label to spine and decorative paper label to front board. A fine copy in the moderately worn original plain paper dust-jacket which is unevenly sunned and has some chips to the spine panel.
§ 375 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. The leaf is folio CCCXIX The Lyfe of Saynt Alexis and is particularly nice for having an annotation in a 16th or 17th century secretary hand in the upper margin. Wynkyn de Worde was Caxton's right-hand man and successor, who, after Caxton's death, ran the press for another 40 years, expanding the range of books published and producing over 400 titles. The Golden Legend is a compilation of the lives of the saints made in the 13th century and translated into English by Caxton himself. Grabhorn Bibliography 486. Disbound and Dispersed, 100. Item #126542
Price: $525.00