Diues [and] pauper.

Accession number:

PML 734

Author:

Parker, Henry, -1470.

Published:

At Westmonstre : emprentyed by me Wyken de worde, iij daye of Decembere ... .M.CCCC.lxxxxvi [3 December 1496].

Description:

[196] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [and]5v: Here endeth a compendyouse treatyse dyalogue of Diues and Pauper That is to saye / the ryche [and] the poore fructuously treatynge vpon the .x. co[m]mau[n]dementes / fynysshed the .iij. daye of Decembre. The yere of oure lorde god .M.CCCC.lxxxxvi. Emprentyd by me Wyken de worde at Westmonstre. Deo gracias. [printer's mark]
Printed in De Worde's types 3:136G and 4:99G.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁴; a-x⁸ y-z [and]⁶: 196 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
3 woodcuts, title woodcut of "diues [and] pauper" printed 3 times, in addition to Virgin and Child woodcut (leaf [and]6r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.2 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: A1 and B4, with leaves A2-a1 inlaid.

Binding:

Modern full brown goatskin, blind-tooled in a retrospective style, over paper boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Riviere & Son for Bennett (about May 1896). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Woodcut initials with yellow wash, woodcuts with pale yellow, red, blue wash and gold leaf. Annotations: Contemporary notations sporadically throughout text, washed (visible but not legible under UV).

Provenance:

Boswell Family, 18th-century inscriptions in 2 hands (partially abraded and overwritten, Bennett cat. suggests hand might be that of James Boswell (1740-1795) but does not really seem to match) citing David Boswell (d. 1493 -- could not own this book) and Thomas Boswell (d. 1513) of Auchinleck's ownership of the volume in the 15th/16th century (front endleaf 3 recto), through inheritance to: Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck (1706-1782), Auchinleck Library, Vraye Foy stamp (front endleaf 3 recto), throught inheritance to Julia Boswell Mounsey (d. 1905), Auchinleck sale, Sotheby's, 23 June 1893, lot 826 for 9.5.0 to Leighton; unidentified English sale catalogue description, lot 458 (front endleaf 1 recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 218, 19/5/96 and price code: rne/-/- +com, 8 leaves of table a/s/-, Binding etc. wy/-/- = le/s/- +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Woodcuts

Department:

Printed Books