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The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection C44 B64(3) b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geography.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 54 leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 20 cm
- Other Title:
- The boke of the introduction of knowledge.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : [Reprinted by R. and A. Taylor], [1814]
- Notes:
- Black-letter.
- Signatures of reprint: A-Z2, Aa-Bb2, Cc2.
- Colophon: Imprented at London in Lothbury ... by me Wyllyam Copland.
- Half-title: The boke of the introduction of knowledge, by Andrew Borde.
- Edited by William Upcott.
- "The impression consists of one hundred and twenty copies on paper and four on vellum."
- First edition supposed to have appeared about 1548. The Lothbury edition may be assigned to 1562-63. cf. W.C. Hazlitt, Bibliographical collections.
- OCLC:
- 3688912
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