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The recuyell of the historyes of Troye.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Z239.K4 L413 1892 v.1 v.2/3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lefèvre, Raoul, active 1460.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Troy (Extinct city)--Legends.
- Troy (Extinct city).
- Small press books.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes in 2 ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, 1892.
- Notes:
- Imprint from colophon.
- Colophon: Here ends this new edition of William Caxton's Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy, done after the first Edition; corrected for the press by H. Halliday Sparling, and printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex, & finished on the fourteenth day of October, 1892. Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 15, Piccadelly.
- Translation of Recueil des histoires de Troyes.
- Reproduces the text of Caxton's edition, published in 1474, which was the first book printed in English.
- "Composed & drawen oute of dyuerce bookes of Latyn in to frenssche by the ryght venerable persone and worshipful man, Faoul le Feure." -- vol. 1, p. iii.
- Printed in an edition 300 copies on paper and 5 on vellum.
- Paged continously.
- Printed in red and black, richly ornamented with woodcut entrellic initials and borders.
- Caption title in black on floral border with woodcut border.
- Printer's device follows the colophon.
- Gothic type. The body of the book in "Troy" type designed by Morris in 1891; the table of chapters and glossary in the smaller "Chaucer" type cut in 1892. The first book in which both types appear.
- Cited in:
- Sparling, H.H. Kelmscott, 8
- Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott, A8
- OCLC:
- 680135
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