The chole and the birde. The hors, the shepe & the ghoos.
John Lydgate (1370-1451)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3079117
Summary
Bibliographic description
[42] . 4to.. Shelved with Sykes's Roxburghe reprint of 'The chorle and the birde' (London: 1818). Purchased by a bookseller from the Sykes sale July 1824. With later sale slip pasted to front board of 'The chorle and the birde' detailing both volumes: "980 Sykes's (Sir Mark Masterman, Bart.) reprints of Caxton's very rare tracts, from the originals in York Cathedral Library, [...] The present copy was purchased at the sale of Sir Mark's Library, in Pall Mall, July 1824.". Provenance: Blue and gilt leather bookplate on front pastedown [presumably relating to MMS?].. Binding: quarter green calf; red paper; edges roughly cut; spine lettered vertically in gilt; as issued?.
Makers and roles
John Lydgate (1370-1451) Sir Mark Masterman-Sykes, 3rd Bt, MP (1771-1823) William Caxton (1422-1491) Roxburghe Club, London