Sold for:
$185
$185
Early Printed Leaves, English, Six Leaves. Leaf 168 from Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend , London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1493, from the section on Saint Genevieve; page 561/562 from the 1577 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles , with three woodcuts; leaf 158 [Dd2] from the 1570 edition of Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools , in Latin and English, with a woodcut of a country fool, "rusticorum ambitio"; two non-concurrent leaves from the 1542 edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , both from the "Parson's Tale;" and leaf forty-four from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's Works , all folio format, removed from books, and unframed. (6)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
