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Caxton (William).- Original Leaf (An) from the Polycronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster

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Caxton (William).- Original Leaf (An) from the Polycronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the year 1482..., one of 297 copies, printed in orange and black, original leaf tipped in (rubricated, one early annotation to fore-margin slightly shaved, very small chipping to inner margin, light damp-staining at inner edge extending into text, one or two other small stains), ex-Brooklyn Public Library with bookplate, perforated stamp to foot of title and a couple other lower margins, small numerical ink-stamp to lower margin of page containing tipped-in leaf (not affecting leaf), very slight toning to margins, original cloth-backed boards, spine with ink library reference to foot and little toned, some small areas of wear to extremities, uncut, 4to (Caxton leaf 255 x 180mm.), San Francisco, Grabhorn Press, for the Book Club of California, 1938.*** The leaf containing text from chapters 13 and 14 of the Fifth Book, including discussion of "machamet the fals prophete duke and leder of Sarasyns and of turkes".

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Caxton (William).- Original Leaf (An) from the Polycronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the year 1482..., one of 297 copies, printed in orange and black, original leaf tipped in (rubricated, one early annotation to fore-margin slightly shaved, very small chipping to inner margin, light damp-staining at inner edge extending into text, one or two other small stains), ex-Brooklyn Public Library with bookplate, perforated stamp to foot of title and a couple other lower margins, small numerical ink-stamp to lower margin of page containing tipped-in leaf (not affecting leaf), very slight toning to margins, original cloth-backed boards, spine with ink library reference to foot and little toned, some small areas of wear to extremities, uncut, 4to (Caxton leaf 255 x 180mm.), San Francisco, Grabhorn Press, for the Book Club of California, 1938.*** The leaf containing text from chapters 13 and 14 of the Fifth Book, including discussion of "machamet the fals prophete duke and leder of Sarasyns and of turkes".

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