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Lot 61
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$1,920
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[LEAF BOOK]. -- [CAXTON, William (ca 1422-1491 or 1492)]. An Original Leaf from the Polycronicon Printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1938.
4to. With an original leaf from Caxton's Polycronicon tipped in. Original linen-backed boards; dust jacket (spine and fore-corners chipped with losses).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 297 unnumbered copies. WITH AN ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE MOST INFLUENTIAL UNIVERSAL HISTORY IN BRITAIN IN THE 14TH AND 15 CENTURIES, comprising: a single leaf, printed in Westminster by William Caxton between 2 July and 20 November 1482, chancery folio (254 x 178 mm), from Liber Sextus CCCXV, several single-line rubrications. Goff H267; ISTC ih00267000; Pforzheimer 489.
Although not as sought after as Caxton's printing of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, interest in this leaf book remained high, and it sold out before publication. cf. Joel Silver, "Catalog of the Exhibition," in: Disbound and Dispersed 16.