Accession number
PML 27474
Creator
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Object title
The Chorle and the birde.
Published
[Westminster] : [William Caxton], [1476]
Description
[10] leaves ; 20 cm (Quarto in half-sheets)
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title from explicit (leaf [1]/10v): Explicit the chorle and the birde.
Printed in Caxton's type 2:135B.
Imprint derived from type and paper evidence.
Collation: [1]¹⁰: 10 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets
For an account of how this edition could precede Caxton's other edition of this title (il00406100) see BMC XI 329-30.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.1 x 13.7 cm.
Printed in Caxton's type 2:135B.
Imprint derived from type and paper evidence.
Collation: [1]¹⁰: 10 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets
For an account of how this edition could precede Caxton's other edition of this title (il00406100) see BMC XI 329-30.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.1 x 13.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century English purple, straight-grained morocco, gilt-tooled over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Charles Lewis, 1816, under Dibdin's direction. Inset paper doublures and plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges. Blank paper added after text to fill out binding.
Variant title
The Churl and the Bird.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication unrealized (leaf [1]/2r). Annotations: Bibliographic notes by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1816 (leaf [1]/1v).
Provenance
York Minster, probably bequeathed by Tobie Matthew (1546-1628), Archbishop of York, originally part of a volume of 9 tracts that were all separately rebound in 1816 (see Needham, Printer & the Pardoner, p. 69); A.S.W. Rosenbach, purchased from the Dean of the Chapter of York Minster, 16 April 1930 (along with PML 27473, from same tract volume); Pierpont Morgan Library, booklabel (front doublure), purchased from Rosenbach, 1930.
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