The recuyell of the historyes of Troye (v. 2-3)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The recuyell of the historyes of Troye (v. 2-3)
Other titles: Recueil des histoires troiennes
Classmark: BC F Pr 2/KEL
Creator(s): Lefèvre, Raoul (fl. 1460)
Additional creator(s): Caxton, William (1422-1491) (Other); Sparling, H Halliday (Other); Kelmscott Press (Other)
Related people: Caxton, William; Sparling, H. Halliday
Publisher: Kelmscott Press
Publication city: Hammersmith
Date(s): 1892
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 v in 2
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/295740
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003503319705181
Description
Paged continuously. Collation: v. [1]: xv, [2], 2-295 p; v. [2]: [297]-718 p.
Colophon: Here ends this new edition of William's 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 country of Middlesex & finished on the fourteenth day of October, 1892. Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 15, Piccadilly.
Page iii: Here begynneth the volume intituled & named the Recuyell of the hystoryes of Troye, composed & drawen oute of dyuerce bookes of Latyn in to Frensshe by...Raoul le Feure, preest & chapelayn vnto...Phelip, duc of Bourgoyne...in the yere...a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure. And translated and drawen out of Frensshe in to Englisshe by Willyam Caxton, mercer of the cyte of London, at the commaundement of... Margarete...duchesse of Bourgoyne...whiche sayd translacion and werke was begonne in Brugis...the fyrst day of Marche, the yere...a thousand foure honderd sixty & eyghte, and... fynsshyd in...Colen...the XIX day of Septembre, the yere...a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen.
Half-title. "The recuyell of the historyes of Troye" (p. [xvi]) on floreated background, within ornamental border.
Gothic type; the body of the book in "Troy," designed by Morris in 1891; the table of chapterns glossary in the smaller "Chaucer" type cut in 1892. The first book printed in "Troy" & the first in which "Chaucer" type appears. Ornaments and initials. Captions in red.
Caxton's edition, printed in collaboration with Colard Mansion at Bruges, about 1474, was the first book printed in English.
Additional description
One of an edition limited to 300 sets on paper
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