If it plese ony man spirituel or temporel to bye ony pyes of two and thre comemoracio[n]s of saliburi vse enpryntid after... (23122)
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Incunable Collection
- Classmark: 23122
- Title: If it plese ony man spirituel or temporel to bye ony pyes of two and thre comemoracio[n]s of saliburi vse enpryntid after the forme of this prese[n]t lettre whiche ben wel and truly correct, late hym come to Westmonester in to the almonestrye at the reed pale and he shal haue them good chepe. Supplico stet cedula.
- Alternative Title(s): If it plese ony man spirituel or temporel to bye ony pyes of two and thre comemoracions of saliburi use enpryntid after the forme of this present lettre whiche ben wel and truly correct
- Language(s): English
- Printer(s): Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
- Publication: [Westminster : William Caxton, about 1477]
- Origin Place: Great Britain England Westminster.; Great Britain England London.
- Date of Creation: 1476
- Note(s):
An advertisement by William Caxton for his edition of the Sarum Ordinal: Ordinale seu Pica secundum usum Sarum (ESTC S93700; STC 16228; ISTC io00087500).
Printed in Caxton's type 3:136G, the same type used for the Ordinale seu Pica secundum usum Sarum.
- Format: Sheet
- Material(s): Paper
- Extent: Single sheet. Leaf height: 145 mm, width: 225 mm.
- Additions:
Annotated by Richard Farmer (1735-1797): "Pray, do not pull down the advertisement".
- Binding:
Unbound.
- Provenance:
From the collection of Richard Farmer (1735-1797), sold at the Farmer sale (Bibliotheca Farmeriana 1798) as part of lot 6017, 'Scraps of early printed Books, by Caxton, etc.', there purchased by Francis Douce (1757-1834) for £1. 16. 0. Douce records the transfer to George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834): "I had most fortunately acquired two of the very curious slips of Caxton's book advertisement stuck up by him in the printing office at the Almonry. I shewed this to Edwards who told Lord S[pencer]. of them & he delegated the artful Yorkshireman to negotiate an exchange. Now as there is no third specimen of the kind existing one of these was at least equal in value to one of the books printed by Caxton, & so Edwards admitted. A copy of the Virgil [now Bodleian Library Douce 162] & an old dotted print [unidentified] were proposed in exchange to which I consented & delivered one of the above slips. When I examined the Virgil I found it wanted the prologue. Notwithstanding this I afterwards heard that the Lord was not satisfied with the exchange, when I voluntarily gave him a very fine & perfect copy of a Lyndwood by W. de Worde, when he somewhat indecorously said to me, 'Aye this is something'. I was almost tempted to remonstrate on the imperfection of his Virgil, but was not certain that he was aware of it, though I think his Yorkshire agent must have been" - see: MS. Douce e.75, p.15, cited in Munby, A.N.L., Connoisseurs and medieval miniatures 1750-1850, p. 49.
After the acquisition from Francis Douce, Spencer had the advertisement pasted into one of his two copies of Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers (UML copy at 3478). It was subsequently removed when the books arrived at The John Rylands Library, but an impression remains on the first endpaper showing where it was formerly pasted.
- Bibliography:Recorded in University of Manchester Library SearchIncunabula Short Title Catalogue, ic00355700Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6440A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, C-155English Short Title Catalogue, S109722Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R. A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640, (2nd ed.), 4890Needham, Paul. 'Checklist of Caxton's printing'. The printer & the pardoner, 24Duff, E. Gordon. Fifteenth century English books. Oxford, 1917 Reprinted with supplement compiled by L. Hellinga, 80De Ricci, Seymour. A census of Caxtons, 17Blades, William. The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's first printer, 35
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Incunable Collection
- Classmark: 23122
- Title: If it plese ony man spirituel or temporel to bye ony pyes of two and thre comemoracio[n]s of saliburi vse enpryntid after the forme of this prese[n]t lettre whiche ben wel and truly correct, late hym come to Westmonester in to the almonestrye at the reed pale and he shal haue them good chepe. Supplico stet cedula.
- Alternative Title(s): If it plese ony man spirituel or temporel to bye ony pyes of two and thre comemoracions of saliburi use enpryntid after the forme of this present lettre whiche ben wel and truly correct
- Language(s): English
- Printer(s): Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
- Publication: [Westminster : William Caxton, about 1477]
- Origin Place: Great Britain England Westminster.; Great Britain England London.
- Date of Creation: 1476
- Note(s):
An advertisement by William Caxton for his edition of the Sarum Ordinal: Ordinale seu Pica secundum usum Sarum (ESTC S93700; STC 16228; ISTC io00087500).
Printed in Caxton's type 3:136G, the same type used for the Ordinale seu Pica secundum usum Sarum.
- Format: Sheet
- Material(s): Paper
- Extent: Single sheet. Leaf height: 145 mm, width: 225 mm.
- Additions:
Annotated by Richard Farmer (1735-1797): "Pray, do not pull down the advertisement".
- Binding:
Unbound.
- Provenance:
From the collection of Richard Farmer (1735-1797), sold at the Farmer sale (Bibliotheca Farmeriana 1798) as part of lot 6017, 'Scraps of early printed Books, by Caxton, etc.', there purchased by Francis Douce (1757-1834) for £1. 16. 0. Douce records the transfer to George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834): "I had most fortunately acquired two of the very curious slips of Caxton's book advertisement stuck up by him in the printing office at the Almonry. I shewed this to Edwards who told Lord S[pencer]. of them & he delegated the artful Yorkshireman to negotiate an exchange. Now as there is no third specimen of the kind existing one of these was at least equal in value to one of the books printed by Caxton, & so Edwards admitted. A copy of the Virgil [now Bodleian Library Douce 162] & an old dotted print [unidentified] were proposed in exchange to which I consented & delivered one of the above slips. When I examined the Virgil I found it wanted the prologue. Notwithstanding this I afterwards heard that the Lord was not satisfied with the exchange, when I voluntarily gave him a very fine & perfect copy of a Lyndwood by W. de Worde, when he somewhat indecorously said to me, 'Aye this is something'. I was almost tempted to remonstrate on the imperfection of his Virgil, but was not certain that he was aware of it, though I think his Yorkshire agent must have been" - see: MS. Douce e.75, p.15, cited in Munby, A.N.L., Connoisseurs and medieval miniatures 1750-1850, p. 49.
After the acquisition from Francis Douce, Spencer had the advertisement pasted into one of his two copies of Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers (UML copy at 3478). It was subsequently removed when the books arrived at The John Rylands Library, but an impression remains on the first endpaper showing where it was formerly pasted.
- Bibliography:Recorded in University of Manchester Library SearchIncunabula Short Title Catalogue, ic00355700Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6440A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, C-155English Short Title Catalogue, S109722Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R. A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640, (2nd ed.), 4890Needham, Paul. 'Checklist of Caxton's printing'. The printer & the pardoner, 24Duff, E. Gordon. Fifteenth century English books. Oxford, 1917 Reprinted with supplement compiled by L. Hellinga, 80De Ricci, Seymour. A census of Caxtons, 17Blades, William. The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's first printer, 35
