Title from caption, sign. a1/leaf 1v.
Imprint from Xylo-Bav and watermark identification.
Questionably attributed to Lower Rhine production since image plates were later used in two typographic editions printed by Nicholas Götz at Cologne about 1475, see ISTC ia01114000 and ia01114200.
Collation: [1-12²]: 24 leaves. Signed on the text leaf of each bifolium: a-[m] (sometimes repeated on image plates); no signature on final bifolium, [m].
Paper format: Chancery folio, in stacked bifolium imposition.
Order of text in edition IIA (preface, Infidelity/Faith, Despair, Avarice, Impatience/Patience, Vain Glory, death) different than standard order cited in Schrieber (preface, Infidelity/Faith, Despair, Impatience/Patience, Vain Glory, Avarice, death).
Printing states differentiated by the recutting of leaves 17, 19, 21, and 23 (Schreiber identified as leaves 13, 15, 17, and 23 based on standard order) for state B.
Printed in browned ink, on one side of the paper only.
PML copy is 9 leaves (of 24): leaves 16-24 (leaves 1-15 are PML 198786); includes the first states of leaves 17, 19 , 21, and 23. NNPM
Watermark: sign. h2/leaf 16. Unicorn. Variant 1) Unicorn with longer tail and front leg closer to chain line. Stevenson dates as Metz, ca. 1466. NNPM
Watermark: sign. i2/leaf 18. Unicorn. Variant 2) Unicorn with pointy horn and thin body. NNPM
Watermark: sign. k2/leaf 20. Unicorn. Variant 2) Unicorn with pointy horn and thin body. NNPM
Watermark: sign. [l]1/leaf 21. Unicorn. Variant 1) Unicorn with longer tail and front leg closer to chain line. Stevenson dates Metz, ca. 1466. NNPM
Hand decoration: Woodcut images partially hand-colored in shades of brown, reddish-brown, green, and blue washes. Initial Q (sign. k2/leaf 16) colored blue and initial S (sign. [m]2/leaf 24) colored red. Rubricated initials and figural elements outlined or highlighted in red on signs. [m]1-2/leaves 23-24. All leaves heavily trimmed; leaves previously glued together and now separated. Staining, sometimes heavy, on many leaves from moisture and mold, as well as gluing and pigment bleed-through. 18th/19th-century roman numeral foliation; foliated by Belle Greene trying to represent bifolium recto (A) and verso (b): 7A-b, 8A-b, 9A-b, 10A, 12b, and 13A. NNPM