[Chronicles of England].

Accession number:

PML 714

Uniform title:

Chronicles: England.

Published:

[London] : [William de Machlinia], [approximately 1486]

Description:

[238] leaves ; 22 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Machlinia's types 4:116G and 5:116G.
Signatures: a¹⁰; ²a B-V x-z [and] aa-dd⁸ ee⁴: 238 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto (see BMC; PML 715 with leaf G1.8 in quarto).
Initial spaces, with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.6 x 16.7 cm, heavily trimmed, frequently damaging printed signature.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1-2 (replaced in facsimile); leaves a3-4, a9-10, ²a⁸, B1, F4.5, K2.7, K6, M4, V2-7, Z⁸, aa8, bb6, cc4, dd2-8, and ee⁴ inlaid from smaller copy (21 x 14.7 cm).

Binding:

19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (22 x 17.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by William Pratt. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few sporadic marginal notations and pentrials throughout, erased/faded and damaged by trimming. Manuscript partially visible on woodcut, heavily damaged.

Provenance:

[?John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark: 71 (crossed out) 53 (front endleaf 1 recto) and cut-out prints, including armorial (front pastedown), part of library inherited by his son:] Cornelius Inglis, M.D. (1824-1907), cut-out booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, 11 June 1900 lot 165 for £175 to Pickering & Chatto; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 309, 12/6/1900 and price code: [erased] (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Woodcuts

Department:

Printed Books