Sold for:
$900

Higden, Ranulph (1280-1364) Polychronicon , Leaf. Westminster: William Caxton, 1482. Small folio, initials, capital strokes, and marginal headings added by hand in red, printed in a single column in forty lines, some smudging, one wormhole, small stain, leaf ninety-seven, part of chapter 21, chapter 22 complete, and part of chapter 23, matted, in a double-glazed frame, 9 1/4 x 7 in. visible through mat opening. [and] A leaf from Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend , Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1493, with two woodcut initials, loss to one corner, just touching the text, adhesions from binding along gutter edge, matted, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (2)


Skinner

Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2013-11-17