The kalender of shepherdes : the edition of Paris 1503 in photographic facsimile, a faithful reprint of R. Pynson's edition of London 1506 / edited with a critical introduction and glossary, by H. Oskar Sommer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pynson, Richard, -1530.

Praetorius, Charles.

Sommer, H. Oskar (Heinrich Oskar), 1861-1929.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Compost et kalendrier des bergiers. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, English.

Physical Description:

3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Kalendayr of Shyppars.

Place of Publication:

London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1892.

Contents:

I. Prolegomena

II. Photographic facsimile of the edition, Paris 1503. [Executed by Charles Praetorius from the original in the Duke of Devonshire's library at Chatsworth]

III. Reprint of R. Pynson's edition London 1506. [From the copy in the Grenville collection in the British museum. Omits the woodcuts]

Notes:

"Only 300 copies of this edition are printed."

Two early versions from the French: the first in broad Scots, printed at Paris in 1503, probably by Antoine Verard, under title, the "Kalendayr of Shypars"; the second, a revised English edition of the Scottish, printed by Pynson, 1506, under the title "Kalender of Shepherdes".

"Various editions of 'Le compost et Kalendrier des bergiers' ... [and] of the Kalender of Shepherdes": p. [11]-59.

Cf. E. Gordon Duff: The first two books printed in the Scottish language (Papers of the Edinburgh bibliographical society. v. 1, no. 14)

OCLC:

1427013